Facsimile and static presentation processing – Static presentation processing – Attribute control
Reexamination Certificate
1999-06-08
2004-01-27
Wallerson, Mark (Department: 2626)
Facsimile and static presentation processing
Static presentation processing
Attribute control
C358S506000, C382S169000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06683701
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an image processing method, an information management device and an image processing device, and more particularly to an image processing method for reading an image recorded on a photographic photosensitive material and processing image data obtained by that reading, an information management device for recording information on a photographic photosensitive material, a cartridge, or a camera shipped with a photographic photosensitive material already loaded therein, and an image processing device for reading an image recorded on the photographic photosensitive material and processing the image data obtained by that reading.
2. Description of the Related Art
Conventionally, a camera (what is known as a lens-fitted film package) in which a photographic photosensitive material such as an unexposed photographic film (hereinafter referred to simply as photographic film) is loaded, has been well known, and currently, types in which a monochrome film or sepia film is loaded are on sale. However, in an era when the use of digital printers has become commonplace, various types of finished photographic prints can be created even from an ordinary color negative film by recording the finishing information on a bar code or the like and producing the finished photographic prints using a digital printer in accordance with the specified finishing information.
In such a lens-fitted film package, information on the photographic finishing method (finishing information) is recorded via a bar code or the like on the cartridge housing the film or on the film itself at the time of production. Upon printing each frame image recorded on a film, the above-mentioned finishing information is read and image processing corresponding to that processing information is performed on the image data of each frame image (image data obtained by reading the frame image), so that a photographic print of a printing finish corresponding to the above finishing information is produced.
Actually in most cases, a film accommodated in the lens-fitted film package is an ordinary color negative film, regardless of the above-mentioned finishing specifications. In other words, if the finishing information can be changed, a photographic print of the desired printing finish can be obtained from a frame image taken with the lens-fitted film package.
However, technology for changing information recorded in advance on the lens-fitted film package (finishing information or the like) to the desired information has not yet been established, so that it is difficult to change the print finishing method to the desired print finishing method in accordance with the desires of the purchaser of the lens-fitted film package at the time of development.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Accordingly, the present invention has been achieved to solve the above problem, and it is an object of the present invention to provide an information management device capable of changing finishing information or the like recorded in advance to desired information, an image processing method and an image processing device capable of performing image processing based on information obtained after the change.
To achieve the above object, according to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an image processing method in which first image processing information indicating the content of processing to be performed on image data obtained by reading an image recorded on a photographic photosensitive material is recorded in advance during the production of each on a photographic photosensitive material, a cartridge housing a photographic photosensitive material, or a camera which is shipped with a photographic photosensitive material already loaded therein, an image recorded on the photographic photosensitive material is read, said first image processing information is read when image processing is performed on the image data obtained from the reading and the processing content of the processing to be performed is determined, and the image processing of said image data is performed, said image processing method comprising the steps of: when the content of image processing to be performed is changed, overwriting the first image processing information with second image processing information indicating the content of image processing after the change or additionally recording the second image processing information; if the second image processing information is recorded on the photographic photosensitive material, the cartridge or the camera when the image processing on the image data is performed, reading the second image processing information; and determining the content of image processing to be performed on the basis of the second image processing information obtained by the reading.
According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided an image processing method according to the first aspect, wherein the first and second image processing information is lens type information relating to a lens mounted in the camera for projecting an object upon photographing and the content of the image processing includes at least one of aberration correction of the lens and peripheral darkening correction of the lens.
According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided an image processing method according to the first or second aspect, wherein the second image processing information includes cancellation instruction information for instructing the cancellation of a predetermined image processing.
According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information management device for overwriting the first image processing information with second image processing information indicating a processing content different from that of the first image processing information or for recording the second image processing information as an addition to the first image processing information, when the first image processing information and the second image processing information relate to a photographic photosensitive material, a cartridge for housing a photographic photosensitive material, or a camera shipped with a photographic photosensitive material already loaded therein on each of which the first image processing information indicating the content of the image processing to be performed on image data obtained by reading an image recorded on the photographic photosensitive material has been recorded in advance.
According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided an image processing device for performing image processing on image data obtained by reading an image recorded on photographic photosensitive material comprising: processing information reading means for reading the image processing information from a photographic photosensitive material, a cartridge for housing a photographic photosensitive material, or a camera shipped with a photographic photosensitive material already loaded therein on each of which the image processing information indicating the content of the image processing to be performed on the image data has been recorded in advance; and determining means for determining the content of the image processing to be performed on the basis of the image processing information obtained from the reading by the processing information reading means.
According to the image processing method of the first aspect, the first image processing information indicating the content of image processing to be performed on image data obtained by reading an image recorded on a photographic photosensitive material such as a photographic film (hereinafter referred to simply as photographic film), is recorded on a photographic film, a cartridge for housing the photographic film or a camera shipped with the photographic film already loaded therein (for example, a lens-fitted film package). When the image recorded on the photographic film is read and image processing is performed on the image data obtained by the reading, t
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