Patent ID: 7123759

Claim:
An image transfer and output method, comprising the steps of: i) feeding a plurality of original image signals representing radiation image information, which have been fed out from an image signal input apparatus, into an operation processing device, ii) performing predetermined operation processing on the plurality of the received original image signals in the operation processing device to obtain an operation-processed image signal, iii) transferring at least one original image signal, which is among the plurality of the original image signals, to an image output device, prior to the operation-processed image signal being obtained from the predetermined operation processing, iv) performing image outputting with the image output device and in accordance with the one original image signal having been transferred, v) after the operation-processed image signal has been obtained from the predetermined operation processing, feeding the operation-processed image signal into the image output device, and vi) performing image outputting with the image output device and in accordance with the received operation-processed image signal.