Photocopying – Projection printing and copying cameras – Identifying – composing – or selecting
Reexamination Certificate
1999-02-09
2002-08-06
Le, N. (Department: 2858)
Photocopying
Projection printing and copying cameras
Identifying, composing, or selecting
Reexamination Certificate
active
06429923
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a photographic processing system, an order receiving system, a customer administrating system and a photographic product delivering system.
Conventionally, an order reception to order a Photographic processing regarding a process such as a development process and a process to produce a print for an image recording medium such as a photographic film in which an image is recorded in each frame and a Photo-CD at a photo shop or a photofinisher has been conducted by such a method that a shop assistant of the photo shop or the photofinisher ask the orderer the order contents of the photographic processing, the contact place (address, telephone number and so on, recently, the entry of telephone number is conducted too many times) and the name of the orderer, enters these items in the order column of bound two carbon copy sheets of a photographic bag and an exchange ticket and asks the orderer to confirm these items. Thereafter, the shop assistant enters the expected finishing date of the ordered product and hands over the entered exchange ticket to the orderer.
Then, the orderer carrying the ticket comes to the photo shop or the photofinisher, the shop assistant of the photo shop or the photofinisher hands over the developed photographic film and the produced prints enclosed in the photographic bag with the receipt in exchange of the ticket and money of the sold money amount. When the orderer lost the ticket or did not carry it, the orderer is requested to write the name, address and the telephone number for the evidence for the receipt of the photographic product.
However, it has been learned that, among persons utilizing the photo shop, some persons have a fear that the contact place and the name are surreptitiously looked by the other persons. As a result of the investigation, in the case of the conventional method of receiving an order, there are problems that the other person observes the entry from a closer place or the conversation between the orderer and the shop assistant is overheard by another orderer standing behind the present orderer and the name and the contact place are known by the another orderer.
Further, it has been learned that there are another problems that the entry in the order column and the confirmation for the entry take much time and labor due to the reason that the shop assistant employed by the photo shop and the photofinisher may not write the name of the orderer with correct characters.
Still further, there are another problems that a sales account can not be reckoned due to the reason that a few orderer do not come to take the photographic print regardless of the order for the photographic processing.
Still further, there are another problems that the orderer has to go to a photo shop or a photofinisher with an exchange ticket in order to take a photographic product at the photo shop or the photofinisher.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention has been done in view of the above problems and attains at least one objective selected from a plurality of objectives described below.
The first objective of the present invention is to make the procedure to input or record information regarding the orderer such as the name of the orderer more simple.
The second objective of the present invention is to prevent the name and the contact place of the orderer from being known by the other persons as far as possible so that the orderer may be released from a fear that the name and the contact place of the orderer are surreptitiously looked by the other persons.
The third objective of the present invention is to avoid troubles that a produced print may not be transferred or delivered regardless of receiving the photographic processing order.
The fourth objective of the present invention is to avoid the occurrence of the problems that a sales account can not be reckoned due to the reason that the orderer does not come to take the photographic print regardless of the order for the photographic processing.
The fifth objective of the present invention is to eliminate the necessity to carry an exchange ticket for the orderer in order to receive a photographic product at the photo shop or the photofinisher.
The above objectives can be attained by the following structures.
A photographic processing system, comprises:
ID reading means for reading ID from an ID card;
ID transmitting receiving means for transmitting the ID to an ID information administrating apparatus and for receiving owner information regarding the owner of the ID card from the ID information administrating apparatus;
order information inputting means for inputting order information regarding order contents for a photographic process; and
control means for correlating the owner information and the order information and for memorizing the owner information and the order information in the correlating form in a memory.
Further, the above objective can be attained by the following preferable structures.
(1) A photographic processing system, comprising:
a receipt receiving means for receiving digital image data used as a document, order contents information regarding order contents of the photographic processing for the digital image data and a type and a card number of a credit card owned by an orderer;
a sold money amount calculating means for calculating an amount of money sold by the photographic processing for the order contents indicated by the order contents information;
a transmitting receiving means for transmitting the sold money amount and the card number to a credit card center corresponding to the type of the credit card so as to settle sales account; and
a photographing processing executing means for executing the photographic processing of the order contents indicated by the order-contents information received by the receiving means for the digital image data received by the receiving means.
With the invention described in Item (1), only by transmitting the digital image data used as a document, the order contents information regarding order contents of the photographic processing for the digital image data and the type and the card number of the credit card owned by the orderer, the photographic processing can be ordered without going to a photo shop or a photofinisher. Further, it is not necessary to write a name with katakana character and there is no fear that the name and the contact place are surreptitiously looked by a stalker. Furthermore, since sales account can be calculated upon receipt of an order, there is no problem that the sales account can not be reckoned due to the reason that the orderer does not come to take the photographic print regardless of the order for the photographic processing.
(2) The photographic processing system described in Item (1), wherein the transmitting receiving means transmits the sold money amount and the card number to the credit card center corresponding to the type of the credit card so that the credit card center settles the sales account and transmits information regarding the name and the contact place of the owner of the credit card and the transmitting receiving means receives the information regarding the name and the contact place of the owner of the credit card from the credit card center, and the photographic processing system further comprises orderer information recording means for recording the information regarding the name and the contact place on a photographic product obtained by the photographing processing executing means by using the information regarding the name and the contact place of the owner of the credit card received by the transmitting receiving means.
(3) The photographic processing system described in Item (2), wherein the orderer information recording means records information regarding the card type and the card number of the credit card on the photographic product.
With the invention described in Items (2) and (3), since the information regarding the name and the contact place of the owner of the credit card is recorded on the photographic product o
Koboshi Shigeharu
Ogawa Minoru
Ueda Yutaka
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner L.L.P.
Konica Corporation
Le N.
LeRoux Etienne P
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