Patent ID: 7421196

Claim:
A film digitizing device reading pictures recorded on a film in an order starting at the top frame of the film and a picture management device managing picture data pieces read from the film with the film digitizing device, wherein the film digitizing device comprises: a picture processor converting the pictures into pieces of digital picture data frame by frame, a recorder recording the pieces of the digital picture data along with frame numbers in the order the pictures are read on a recording medium, and a recorder controller which records a series of picture data pieces read from the same film along with the same film ID information; and wherein the picture management device is accepting an indication of extracting picture data pieces along with information of the same film ID, extracting a series of picture data pieces along with information of the same film ID according to the indication of extracting picture data pieces, and adding information on date and time the picture taken to the extracted series of picture data pieces with a specified difference shifted in the order of frame numbers.