Patent ID: 7256819

Claim:
An order processing method used in an image output service for a digital camera, the order processing method comprising the steps of: obtaining image data by photographing an image and recording the image data into a recording medium or by reading the image data from the recording medium; replaying the obtained image data as a visible image on a display medium; receiving an output instruction regarding the image data, the output instruction being input from an input apparatus based on the replay of the image data; generating order information describing the output instruction in a predetermined data format and recording the order information in the recording medium; displaying on the display medium all image data output of which has been instructed and the content of the instruction regarding the image data so that a requester of the image output service can confirm the content of the output instruction; certifying an order by recording confirmed order information in the recording medium when a predetermined order confirmation operation indicating that the requester has confirmed the content of the output instruction; carrying out the image output service based on the order information recorded in the recording medium only when the confirmed order information has been recorded in the recording medium, and selecting for an image recording mode one of a printing mode and a non-printing mode based on a selection from a user, wherein a still image is recordable in the non-printing mode.