Patent ID: 6597468
Filing Date: 2003-07-22
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
A method of printing a picture from a digital image file having additional information, said method comprising the steps of:capturing, with a digital still camera, an image of a subject and generating digital image data representing the image of the subject; generating a digital form of additional information on at least one selected from a group consisting of a photographing method, a photographing parameter, a signal processing method, a shading value and a correcting value of photosensitive cell defects of an image sensor of the camera, a dynamic range processing, a form of the image data, and a set value set in the camera in said step of capturing the image, said additional information being generated in the camera; forming an electronic digital data file including the image data and the additional information in the camera; preparing an image reproduction system separate from the camera; transferring the data file to the image reproduction system; processing the image data with the reproduction system, said processing based on the transferred additional information; and producing a visible image from the processed image data in a form of a printed picture.