IP Library Granted Patent US 7,474,436
Granted Patent B2
US 7,474,436 · App. 10/413,082 · Granted Jan 6, 2009

Photographic printing system

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Patent No.
US 7,474,436
App. No.
10/413,082
Granted
Jan 6, 2009
Kind
B2
Abstract

A photographic printing system includes a film reader for reading photographic image of a photographic film, a printer for printing the photographic image on an image recording medium based on photographic image data obtained through the film reader, a writer for writing at least the photographic image data in a loaded optical disc of the WORM (Write Once Read Many) type, and a controller for controlling the writing process of the writer. The controller allows writing, in the optical disc, of both the image data and a display processing program for displaying the image data written in the optical disc on a monitor when the optical disc has no data pre-written therein and allows writing, in the optical disc, of the image data when the optical disc has such display processing program pre-written therein.

Claims (7)

1. A photographic printing system comprising:

a film reader for reading photographic image of a photographic film;

a printer for printing the photographic image on an image recording medium based on photographic image data obtained through the film reader;

a writer for writing at least the photographic image data in a loaded optical disc of the WORM (Write Once Read Many) type; and

a controller for controlling the writing process of the writer;

wherein said controller allows writing, in the optical disc, of both the image data and a display processing program for displaying the image data written in the optical disc on a monitor when the optical disc has no data pre-written therein and allows writing, in the optical disc, of the image data when the optical disc has such display processing program pre-written therein; and wherein the controller inhibits writing of the image data when the optical includes data other than the display processing program pre-written therein in an appendable mode.

2. The photographic printing system according to claim 1 , wherein the controller checks whether the display processing program is written in advance in the optical disc or not, based on an ID code for the display processing program written at a predetermined area of the optical disc.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 25, 2011
From: NORITSU KOKI CO., LTD.
To: NK WORKS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 026339/0888 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 14, 2003
From: OHUE, MASAHIDE; NAKANO, SHOICHI
To: NORITSU KOKI CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 014063/0942 →