Patent ID: 7336801

Claim:
A method for obtaining image-based products from a digital motion picture source, said method comprising the steps of: (a) displaying a sequence of motion picture image frames from a digital motion picture image source containing motion picture contents; (b) selecting one or more of the image frames for an image-based product and obtaining a unique frame identification for said one or more selected frames; (c) utilizing the unique frame identification to determine whether at least one permissible image-based product can be made from said one or more selected frames; (d) if a permissible image-based product may be made as determined from step (c), obtaining file data corresponding to said one or more selected frames from a digital source file containing source information corresponding to the motion picture contents; (e) preparing order information for the permissible image-based product from the file data; and (f) generating the image-based product from the file data according to the order information.