Patent ID: 6429923
Filing Date: 2002-08-06
Classification: G03D

Abstract:
A photographic processing and client administrative system for receiving a photographic processing order from a client who carries an image medium containing photographic image information and a card containing an ID code including numbers to identify the client and for processing the photographic image information in accordance with the photographic processing order, comprising:a photographic processing order input device for inputting the photographic processing order, wherein the photographic processing order includes information which designates the kind of image medium received from the client and the type of method to be used to process the photographic image information, and the photographic processing order does not include client information including a client name and a client telephone number, and wherein the photographic processing order input device generates data of the photographic processing order; a card reader for reading the ID code form the card of the client and for generating data of the ID code; a controller configured to generate a reference number with reference to the data of the photographic processing order and the data of the ID code and to memorize the data of the photographic processing order and the date of the ID code together with the reference number in a correlated form in a memory; an ID transmitting receiving device for transmitting the data of the ID code to an ID information administrative center and for receiving data of the client information including the client name and the client telephone number from the ID information administrative center, wherein the controller memorizes the data of the client information together with both of the data of the photographic processing order and the reference number in the memory in the correlated form after the ID transmitting receiving device has received the data of the client information from the ID information administrative center; a writing device to receive the data of the client information and the reference number from the controller and to write the client name and the client telephone number together with the reference number on a sheet; and a photographic processing device to process the photographic image information in the image medium based on the photographic processing order correlated with the reference number and to produce a photographic product in correlation with the reference number.