Patent ID: 7706578
Filing Date: 2010-04-27
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An image compilation production system, the image compilation production system being installed in a setting attended by a plurality of visitors, the image compilation production system comprising: a plurality of identification devices, each identification device including an electronic data storage device having identification data stored therein, one of the identification devices being carried by at least one of the visitors to the setting; a plurality of digital image capturing devices; a reader device associated with each of the image capturing devices, each reader device having a detection range for sensing the identification data stored in the electronic data storage device, the reader device activating the associated digital image capturing device to capture the image of the visitor when the identification data stored in the electronic data storage device of the identification device carried by the visitor is within the detection range of the reader device; and a system computer including a memory having a database stored therein, the database including a customer record associated with each image compilation, the customer record including a customer identification, the identification data stored in the electronic data storage device of each identification device carried by each visitor associated with the image compilation, identification data for each image associated with the image compilation that is captured by one of the image capturing devices, and the identification data sensed by the reader device associated with the image capturing device; wherein the database is queried to determine whether the customer record already includes an electronic image of the visitor that has been captured by the image capturing device associated with the reader device reading the identification data, and the digital image capturing device associated with the reader device reading the identification data is activated to capture the image of the visitor if the identification data is associated with a customer record and the database does not include an electronic image of the visitor that has been captured by the image capturing device associated with the reader device reading the identification data.