EP0965929A2
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Image data management system and method thereof
Assignee: Panasonic Corp
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Filing: 1999-06-15
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Granted: —
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Expires: 2019-06-15
Abstract
Abstract The present invention relates to the image data management means performing the registration and fetching (printing) of an image data and the method thereof. By the image data management means the image data is registered in a storage means with adding a file name based on a registration number specifying said image data and then the registration number and attribute information about the image data corresponding to it are registered and controlled in an attribute information table. The image data management means, when a specific registration number is informed, fetches the image data corresponding to said registration number out of a storage means and instructs an image data output means to print the fetched image data. The publication means publishes a list view based on the attribute information registered in the attribute information table through a network The browser means transmits the print request regarding the image data corresponding to at least one of the list view published by the publication means toward the publication means together with the registration number of the image data. The publication means the registration number of the print-request object toward the image data management means. According to this arrangement, it is possible to shorten the print processing of the image data.
Inventors
- 👤 Akito Sharie Otsu Asahigaoka 603 Umebayashi
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
EP
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-09 10:45
CPC Classifications
G; G06; G06F; G06F16/00; G06F16/50; G06F16/54; G06F3/00; G06F3/12
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 17
Claim 1
Independent Claim
135 words
An image data management system able to register and fetch image data,
wherein image data inputted from an image data input means is registered in a storage
means and a file name based on a registration number specifying said image data is
added and then the registration number and attribute information about the image data
corresponding to it are registered and controlled in an attribute information table, said
image data management system comprising: a digital integrated apparatus provided with an image data management means,
when a specific registration number is informed, fetching the image data corresponding
to said registration number out of the storage means and instructing an image data
output means to print the fetched image data: and a browser unit for selecting image data, connected with the digital integrated
apparatus through a network.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
211 words
In an image data management system, wherein image data inputted from an
image data input means is registered in a storage means with a file name based on a
registration number specifying said image data and then the registration number and
attribute information about said image data corresponding to it are registered and
controlled in an attribute information table, said image data management system
comprising a digital integrated apparatus provided with a image data management
means, when a specific registration number is informed, fetching the image data
corresponding to said registration number and instructing an image data output means
to print the fetched image data, and a browser unit connected with the digital integrated
apparatus through a network, said digital integrated apparatus is provided with a publication means, which
publishes a list view based on the attribute information registered in the attribute
information table, notifying to the image data management means the registration
number of a print-request object at receiving the print-request from the browser unit, said browser unit is provided with a browser means transmitting a print-request
regarding an image data corresponding to at least one attribute information of the list
view published by the publication means toward the publication means together with
the registration number of the image data.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
21 words
The image data management system defined in claim 2, wherein the attribute
information contains unique user ID (identification) for every user.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
23 words
The image data management system defined in claim 2 or 3, wherein the
attribute information contains access right information about the image data.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
51 words
The image data management system defined in any of claims 2 to 4, wherein the
digital integrated apparatus is provided with a thumbnail image generating means
generating a thumbnail image data of an image data, and the attribute information
contains a pointer information indicating a registered location of the thumbnail image.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
29 words
The image data management system defined in any of claims 2 to 5, wherein the
attribute information contains feature image information about a specific feature of an
image data.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
46 words
The image data management system defined in claim 6, wherein the digital
integrated apparatus is provided with a feature image extracting means extracting a data
from a specific position of an image data, and said specific feature data is extracted by
the feature image extracting means.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
111 words
The image data management system defined in any of claims 2 to 7, wherein the
digital integrated apparatus comprises: a receipt number issuing means issuing a unique receipt number for every image
data of a security-print-request object at receiving a security-print-request from the
browser means and then notifying the receipt number to the publication means and the
image data output means; the publication means transmitting the receipt number from the receipt number
issuing means toward the browser means; and an image data output management means, when the receipt number is inputted
from an operation means, instructing the image data output means to print the image
data corresponding to the receipt number.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
85 words
The image data management system defined in claim 8, wherein the digital
integrated apparatus comprises: the publication means, at receiving each unique receipt number of every image
data of the security-print-request object together with the security-print-request from
the browser means, informing the receipt number to the image data output control
means; and the image data output control means, when the receipt number is inputted from
the operation means, instructing the image data output means to print out the image
data corresponding to the receipt number.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
128 words
The image data management system defined in any of claims 2 to 9, wherein a
plural digital integrated apparatus is connected with each other through a network, and wherein a specified digital integrated apparatus comprises: the publication means, when the print-request is received from the browser
means, informing the browser means that the image data output means is busy; and the image data management means, when the browser means designates other
specified digital integrated apparatus in response to the notification of the publication
means, transmitting the image data corresponding to the registration number of the
print-request object toward other specified digital integrated apparatus, and wherein other specified digital integrated apparatus comprises the image data
output means printing out the image data transmitted from the specific digital integrated
apparatus.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
155 words
An image data management method performed by a digital integrated apparatus
wherein image data inputted from an image data input means is registered in a storage
means, adding a file name based on a registration number specifying said image data,
and then the registration number and attribute information about said image data
corresponding to it are registered and controlled in an attribute table, said method
comprising: a step of publishing a list view based on the attribute information registered in
the attribute information table: a step of receiving the print-request of the image data corresponding to at least
one attribute information of the list view thus published together with the registration
number of the image data from the browser means connected through a network; and a step of fetching the image data corresponding to the received registration
number of the print-request object from the storage means and printing it by the image
data output means.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
71 words
The image data management method as defined in claim 11 comprising: a step of issuing when a security-print-request is received from the browser
means, a unique receipt number for every image data of the security-print-request
object; a step of transmitting the issued receipt number to the browser means; and a step of printing the image data corresponding to the receipt number when the
receipt number is inputted from the operation means.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
90 words
The image data management method defined in claim 11 or 12, wherein plural
digital integrated apparatus are connected with each other through a network, said
method comprising: a step that a specified digital integrated apparatus of which the image data out
put means is busy receives the print-request from the browser means; and a step that the image data of the print-request object stored in the specified
digital integrated apparatus is printed by the image data output means of the other
specified digital integrated apparatus designated by the browser means.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
106 words
An image data management system comprising a digital integrated apparatus
connected to a browser unit, the digital integrated apparatus comprising: image data input means; image data management means; image data storage means; and image data output means; wherein image data inputted via the input means is registered by the
management means by assignment of a registration number, and stored in the storage
means under a file name based on the assigned registration number, and upon a user
request for a specific registration number via the browser unit, the management means
fetches the corresponding image data from the storage means and prints it via the output
means.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
85 words
An image data management system according to claim 14 wherein the image
data storage means comprises an image data file to store image data and an attribute
information table summarising various attributes of the image data file, and the browser
means allows user access to these attributes prior to printing, and preferably further
comprising a publication means for publishing a list view based on the attribute
information stored in the attribute information table upon print out of the fetched image
data by the output means.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
79 words
An image data management system comprising a digital integrated apparatus
connected to a browser unit, the digital integrated apparatus comprising: image data input means; image data management means; image data storage means; and image data output means; wherein image data enters the storage means via the input means and a user
may, via the browser unit, and the management means, view selected attributes of the
stored image data and select image data to be printed via the output means.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
19 words
An image data management system according to any preceding claim wherein
the browser unit is a plural browser unit.
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