Patent ID: 6147742
Filing Date: 2000-11-14
Classification: G03D

Abstract:
A photofinishing system for automatically processing images from image related data in terms of image content and the content of non-image data associated with an image pursuant to customer output requests, said system including:an order manager operative to receive and control processing of said output requests;at least one source of image related data corresponding to said output request;an input interface for receiving said image related data from said at least one source and converting said data to a digital data stream;a memory for storing said image related data;a data parser disposed in communication with said memory to extract selected data from said data stream according to said order manager and assemble said extracted data into respective files corresponding to image data and non-image data each having respective groups of data fields; andan output module responsive to said order manager and operative to produce an output organized with respect to said data fields.