Patent Document ID: 20020015594
Application ID: 09911089
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A process of making available photographic digital images from a photographic film strip that includes at least one latent negative image, the process comprising the steps of: developing, without printing, a photographic film strip so as to produce negative images from latent images recorded on the photographic film strip; scanning the negative images recorded on the photographic film strip 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; recording the digital image file; accessing and processing the digital image file so as to obtain a display file having a second resolution, to enable a viewing of one positive image for each of the negative images recorded on the photographic film strip, wherein the displayed images are linked to each of the positive images; and transmitting, to a previously defined customer address, a message indicating an availability of the digital image file at a preset address; wherein, at a customer request, the process comprises at least one of: transmitting the digital data from the display file having the second resolution; transmitting at least one of the images having the second resolution to a set user address; or using data contained in the digital image file to make a paper printout of one of the recorded negative images.