Patent ID: 6608973
Filing Date: 2003-08-19
Classification: G06Q,H04N

Abstract:
A process of making available, on a server, photographic digital images from a photographic film strip that includes at least one latent negative image, the process comprising the steps of:a) in a processing laboratory which comprises said server: a1) developing, without printing, a photographic film strip having latent images recorded thereon so as to produce negative images from the latent images, and scanning the negative images so as to produce a digital image file containing digital data representative of each negative image carried on the photographic film strip, wherein each digital representation has at least one image having a first resolution; a2) recording the digital image file on said server; a3) destroying the photographic film strip; a4) accessing the digital image file and processing the digital image file by a computer so as to obtain a display file having a second resolution to enable the viewing of one positive image for each of the negative images recorded on the photographic film strip, a listing index of the displayed image being linked to each of the positive images; a5) transmitting, from said server, to a previously defined customer address, a message indicating the availability of the digital image file at the preset address; and wherein, b) at a customer request to said server, transmitting the digital data from among the following options: b1) the display file having the second resolution to a set user address, or b2) one of the images having the second resolution to the set user address.