IP Library Granted Patent US 8,427,543
Granted Patent B2
US 8,427,543 · App. 13/364,951 · Granted Apr 23, 2013

Photography system to organize digital photographs and information regarding the subjects therein

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Patent No.
US 8,427,543
App. No.
13/364,951
Granted
Apr 23, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

A photographic processing system in which subject and other data is stored in a database and such data is automatically linked to photographs taken using either a film or digital camera.

Claims (12)

1. A photography system comprising:

an image capture device that captures at least one digital image of one or more subjects, the at least one digital image being associated with an image identification code;

a user input device that receives data including a subject identification code and other data;

a storage device that stores a relational database, the relational database having different data groups to store the image identification code, the subject identification code, and the other data; and

a processor that stores the image identification code, the subject identification code, and the other data within the relational database to relationally link the at least one digital image with the other data, to relationally link the subject identification code to the other data, and to organize the image identification code, the subject identification code, and the other data according to the plurality of different data groups.

2. The photography system of claim 1 , wherein the relational database comprises at least one table.

3. The photography system of claim 1 , wherein the relational database comprises a plurality of tables, the plurality of tables being arranged and configured to organize the image identification code, the subject identification code, and the other data according to the plurality of different data groups.

4. The photography system of claim 1 , wherein the other data includes one or more of subject data, frame data, composition data, group data, order data, link data, or school data.

5. The photography system of claim 4 , wherein the other data includes group data for a group, the group data including one or more of a name of the group, names of members of the group, names of the group's leaders, or a name of an organization with which the group is affiliated.

6. The photography system of claim 4 , wherein the other data includes subject data, the subject data including identification data including one or more of a name, an address, a telephone number, an email address, a school the subject attends, a class the subject is enrolled in, a student identification number, or other data identifying the subject.

7. The photography system of claim 6 , wherein the subject identification code is selected from the subject data.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein at least some data stored in the relational database is stored in the image capture device as part of the digital image.

Assignments (8)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE ASSIGNOR AND ASSIGNEE NAMES PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL: 051688 FRAME: 0117. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE MERGER. Recorded Feb 24, 2020
From: LIFETOUCH, LLC
To: SHUTTERFLY, LLC
Reel/Frame 052003/0378 →
MERGER Recorded Jan 31, 2020
From: LIFETOUCH, LLC.
To: SHUTTERFLY, LLC.
Reel/Frame 051688/0117 →
ENTITY CONVERSION Recorded Jan 27, 2020
From: LIFETOUCH INC.
To: LIFETOUCH, LLC
Reel/Frame 051706/0875 →
FIRST LIEN SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Sep 27, 2019
From: LIFETOUCH INC.
To: WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
Reel/Frame 050548/0462 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Sep 26, 2019
From: MORGAN STANLEY SENIOR FUNDING, INC.
To: SHUTTERFLY, INC.; LIFETOUCH INC.; LIFETOUCH NATIONAL SCHOOL STUDIOS INC.
Reel/Frame 050527/0868 →
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE ASSIGNEE NAME PREVIOUSLY RECORDED ON REEL 027644 FRAME 0341. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded Sep 17, 2019
From: HOLMES, JON A.
To: LIFETOUCH INC.
Reel/Frame 050407/0052 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded May 23, 2018
From: SHUTTERFLY, INC.; LIFETOUCH INC.; LIFETOUCH NATIONAL SCHOOL STUDIOS INC.
To: MORGAN STANLEY SENIOR FUNDING, INC., AS COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 046216/0396 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 2, 2012
From: HOLMES, JON A.
To: LIFETOUCH, INC.
Reel/Frame 027644/0341 →