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- the present invention relates to digital image processing, and in particular, to selecting and arranging multiple digital images from a group of thumbnail images and printing such selected images.
- Microsoft PictureItTM version 1.0 includes an image input screen (“get it” screen) that provides multiple reduced resolution, or “thumbnail”, images, but the thumbnail images must be dragged and dropped one at a time from the preview image type screen to a filmstrip.
- the user must exit the image input mode and switch to a print layout mode within a “share it” screen. In this mode, the user must drag and drop the first image from the filmstrip into the print layout screen.
- the user must then manually resize, rotate (if required), and position the first image, for example, in the upper left of the screen.
- the user selects the second image and manually attempts to properly size and position this image, for example, in the upper right of the screen.
- the composite image is ready to print.
- thumbnail images sometimes called a “contact sheet” or a “gallery”
- these galleries are used only to select which images may be “opened” by the program for further manual, picture by picture editing.
- LivePixTM version 1.1 has such a gallery, but it only allows the user to select one image, which is then opened. After the image is opened, it may be manually sized, copied, and pasted into a collage image in a manner similar to PictureIt.
- MGI PhotosuiteTM Special Edition includes a “Photo Album” with a gallery type feature. The order of the thumbnail images may be rearranged to later allow a “slideshow” of images to be viewed, one after another in the desired order. But the user cannot select multiple images from the gallery to print or to move to another gallery.
- U.S. Pat. No. 4,607,949 discloses a method of printing photographic images in which a plurality of photographs taken on a photo negative film and explanatory captions of the photographs are printed together on a sheet of photographic paper.
- U.S. Pat. No. 5,109,281 discloses a video printer adapted for printing multiple images on a single sheet.
- U.S. Pat. No. 5,274,418 discloses an image processing system which reproduces a plurality of photographs on a single sheet of photographic paper in an album-like format.
- An advantage of the present invention is to enable a user to select a set of images from a group of thumbnail images to be printed, including the number of images to be printed per page, and to automatically print the selected images.
- Another advantage of the present invention is to enable the selected images to be properly sized and positioned on each page for printing without user intervention.
- FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a system which includes a digital camera that can use the method of the present invention to select digital images from a group of thumbnail images for printing, and arrange and print the images;
- FIG. 2 is a flow diagram in block form showing the method of the present invention
- FIG. 3 is a diagram of a computer display screen displaying a group of thumbnail images in which a user can select images for printing in accordance with the present invention
- FIG. 4 is a diagram of a print function display screen in which a user can choose the number of images to appear on each page, the specific images to appear on each page, and the number of copies of each page to be printed in accordance with the present invention
- FIGS. 5A, 5B, and 5 C show exemplary page layouts for one page in which two different images are printed, one page in which four different images are printed, and one page in which two copies of the same image are printed, respectively;
- FIG. 6 is a diagram of a custom layout template screen in which a user can “build” a page template.
- FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of a system 10 which utilizes the present invention.
- the system 10 includes a digital image source which is shown as a digital still camera 12 ; and a user's host computer 14 with a hard drive 16 , a central processing unit (CPU) 50 , a display monitor 52 , a keyboard 54 , a mouse 55 , a printer 18 , and a modem 56 .
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- the digital still camera 12 is used to capture images, and can be, for example, the Kodak Digital Science DC210TM zoom camera sold by Eastman Kodak Company.
- the digital still camera 12 can be rotated from a landscape orientation to a portrait orientation when certain images are taken to provide the best composition.
- the digital still camera 12 includes a lens 22 which directs image light from a subject (not shown) upon an image sensor 24 , which can be either a conventional charge coupled device (CCD) sensor or a complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) imager.
- the image sensor 24 produces an analog image signal that is converted into a digital image signal by an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter 26 .
- the digitized image signal is processed and compressed by a digital signal processor 28 .
- the digital signal processor 28 compresses each still image according to any one of a number of known image compression algorithms, such as well-known JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) discrete cosine transformation-based compression algorithm.
- the digital signal processor 28 applies the compression algorithm to the digital image data, and sends the compressed image data to an image display 36 , such as a color liquid crystal display (LCD), where the user can view the captured image.
- the compressed image signal is then transferred through a memory card interface 30 to a removable memory card 32 where it is stored.
- User buttons 34 are used to control the operation of the digital still camera 12 in a well known manner.
- the memory card 32 can be adapted to the PCMCIA card interface standard, such as described in the PC Card Standard, Release 2.0, published by the Personal Computer Memory Card International Association, Sunnyvale, Calif., September, 1991.
- the memory card 32 accordingly contains solid state memory, such as Flash EPROM memory, which the memory card 32 uses to store image data files. Electrical connection between the memory card 32 and the digital camera 12 is maintained through a card connector (not shown) positioned in the memory card interface 30 .
- the memory card interface 30 and the card connector provide, e.g., an interface according to the aforementioned PCMCIA card interface standard.
- the memory card 32 can also be inserted into a memory card reader peripheral 40 in the host computer 14 which is also adapted to the PCMCIA interface standard.
- the compressed image signal can also be sent to a serial interface 42 of the host computer 14 through either a cable 41 , which is connected to the digital camera 12 through a host computer interface 38 , or a wireless interface, such as an infrared interface (not shown).
- film exposed in a conventional camera can be developed, scanned and stored on a recordable compact disk (CD-R) 58 , for example, in the FlashPixTM image format, to provide the digital image input.
- CD-R 58 can be inserted into a compact disk read only memory (CD-ROM) drive 44 in the host computer 14 .
- the images can be stored on a floppy disk magnetic medium 60 , such as Kodak's Picture DiskTM, to provide the digital image input, and inserted into a floppy disk drive 46 in the host computer 14 .
- images can be provided by an internet-based picture service 62 , and downloaded via the modem 56 .
- the digital images are downloaded to the host computer 14 through the CPU 50 and can be stored on the hard drive 16 .
- Application program or software for the present invention is incorporated into the hard drive 16 of the host computer 14 , and then downloaded to a computer random access memory (RAM) when the program is used by the CPU 50 .
- RAM computer random access memory
- the application software that implements the method of the present invention uses the FlashPixTM image format, described in FlashPixTM Specification, version 1.0, to store and process the images. Images provided by sources in other formats can be converted to the FlashPixTM format.
- Prints of the images can be made on the printer 18 connected to the host computer 14 , for example, onto 8-1 ⁇ 2 inch paper in a color ink jet printer. It can be appreciated that images could also be sent to a remote printer (not shown), such as the internet-based picture service 62 , which could support printing of multiple images on a single page.
- FIG. 2 A flow diagram of the process of the present invention using the application software delivered to the RAM of the CPU 50 is shown in FIG. 2.
- an introduction screen is displayed (block 102 ) on the display 52 of the host computer 14 .
- the user selects the image source (block 104 ) using a first computer display screen 200 showing various image source selections.
- the image source selections can include, for example, the digital still camera 12 , a scanner (not shown), the floppy disk 60 , the CD-R 58 , such as the Kodak PhotoCDTM disc, the user's hard drive 14 , and images available via the internet-based picture service 62 .
- a “preview picture screen” 300 (shown in FIG. 3) is displayed on the display screen 52 (block 106 ) showing a two-dimensional array of thumbnail images 302 obtained from the image source.
- the thumbnail images 302 preferably have a lower resolution than the actual image data.
- the user can select multiple images (e.g., five images) by pressing either a control key (not shown) or a shift key (not shown) on the keyboard 54 while clicking the mouse 55 on any number of thumbnail images 302 (block 108 ).
- FIG. 3 shows that four thumbnail images 302 a, 302 b, 302 c, and 302 d (which are outlined) have been selected.
- arrow controls 304 on the right portion of the “preview picture screen” 300 enable the user to scroll through the larger number of thumbnail images 302 to view a group of the thumbnail images 302 (e.g., 15 thumbnail images) at a time.
- thumbnail images 302 have been selected (block 108 )
- the user can choose to rotate the selected images 302 (block 110 ) by selecting a “rotate” icon 306 (block 111 ).
- the computer then automatically rotates the image in a default direction (e.g., 90 degrees clockwise) (block 112 ), preferably by modifying the FlashPixTM image format viewing parameter, or alternatively, by properly exchanging the row and column image data.
- the user can then select additional images (e.g., three images) to be printed with the first group of selected images obtained in block 108 by again pressing the control key or the shift key on the keyboard 54 while clicking the mouse 55 on any number of thumbnail images 302 (block 114 ).
- additional images e.g., three images
- the “preview picture screen” 300 also displays a set of function icons on the periphery of the screen 300 , including a “local print” icon 308 and a “remote print” icon 310 .
- the user selects the type of printing.
- the user can print all of these selected images on the local printer 18 , for example, a color ink jet printer, by clicking on the “local print” icon 308 (block 116 ).
- This brings up a “print function display screen” 400 (block 118 ) shown in FIG. 4.
- the user then chooses a type of layout (block 119 ).
- the user can choose one of several predefined “layout” icons 402 on the periphery of the “print function display screen” 400 which determines how many pictures appear on each page by selecting, for example, 1, 2, 4, 9, or 16 images to be printed per page (block 120 ). Once a predefined layout is chosen, the images to be printed appear in a print preview area 422 on the “print function display screen” 400 . Based on the number of selected pictures to be printed on a page, the program will automatically select the orientation of the images to best fill up the page. FIG.
- FIG. 4 shows, as an example, four images 420 a, 420 b, 420 c, and 420 d, which correspond to the selected thumbnail images 302 a, 302 b, 302 c, and 302 d, respectively, shown in FIG. 3.
- the user can choose to “build” a page template with any number of images per page by selecting a “custom layout template” icon 403 (block 130 in FIG. 2), which will be described in more detail below.
- the user chooses whether to have the same or different images appear on each page (block 148 ).
- the user selects a “grouping” icon 404 .
- the user selects a “collating” icon 406 .
- the user then chooses the number of sets of images to print (block 150 ), for example, three copies of each laid out page, by typing in the number of desired sets in a text field 408 on the left portion of the “print function display screen” 400 .
- the user can press a “print now” icon 410 (block 152 ) and walk away from the host computer 14 .
- Each of the selected images will be printed automatically on the local printer 18 (block 154 ), without further user interaction.
- the program prepares the printed layout by calculating the image size which enables the selected number of images to fit on a page, and rotating the selected images as necessary so that landscape oriented images and portrait oriented images fit together on the page to be printed.
- the image data is automatically interpolated or decimated to provide the proper image data to fill the page with the selected number of images.
- the program also calculates for “white space” to be positioned between the images to facilitate the cutting of the page into individual pictures.
- the program calculates the number of the selected images in vertical and horizontal directions, and calculates the size of the selected images in the vertical and horizontal directions to cause “white space” to separate the selected images.
- the orientation of the images is printed to best “fill up the page” based on the selected number of images.
- FIGS. 5A, 5B and 5 C are examples of images which have been printed.
- FIG. 5A shows two different images (A and B) which have been printed on one page.
- FIG. 5B shows four different images (A, B, C, and D) which have been printed on one page.
- the program has automatically rotated the orientation of the four images (A, B, C, and D) so that they fit on one page with minimum “white space” between the images.
- FIG. 5C shows two copies of the same image (A) which have been printed on one page.
- the user could choose to instead have the prints made by a remote printing service connected via a network, such as the internet-based picture service 62 , which could support the printing of multiple images.
- a remote printing service connected via a network, such as the internet-based picture service 62 , which could support the printing of multiple images.
- the user instead selects the “remote print” icon 310 (block 132 ) on the “print preview screen” 300 shown in FIG. 3.
- the user completes a connection process (block 133 ) to the internet-based picture service 62 via the modem 56 , and the selected thumbnail images 302 are uploaded and displayed on the display monitor 52 of the host computer 14 .
- the user would select the number of images per page and the number of sets per page (block 134 ) based on the specific features of the internet-based picture service 62 .
- a “custom layout template screen” 600 is displayed (block 140 ) as shown in FIG. 6.
- the user selects a custom build option 602 (block 142 ).
- the user selects the number of rows and columns of images to appear on a page (block 144 ), and selects the size of the images (block 146 ) by selecting, for example, the size of the horizontal and vertical “white space” between the images (as shown in FIG. 6), or the desired width and height of the images (not shown).
- the images to be printed appear in the print preview area 422 according to the layout built by the user.
- the program prepares the custom printed layout by rotating the selected images as necessary so that landscape oriented images and portrait images fit together on the page to be printed.
- the image data is automatically interpolated and decimated to provide the proper image data to fill the page with the selected number of images.
- the image is sized based on the “white space” positioned between the images and the number of rows and columns of images specified by the user.
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- The present invention relates to digital image processing, and in particular, to selecting and arranging multiple digital images from a group of thumbnail images and printing such selected images.
- To become mass market products, computer-based digital photography systems must offer consumers the ability to easily organize and print digital images. In particular, it should be simple to choose from all of the images taken by a camera, or stored on a disc, a set of a dozen or more images to be printed all at once. Unfortunately, existing prior art systems require the user to choose a first image, go through a process to print it, then choose a second image and repeat the same process a second time for this second image and again for all of the images to be printed.
- It may also be desirable for a user to choose a set of images to be printed on a single page with all selected images being equally sized and properly positioned. For example, the user may wish to print groups of four different images on an 8″×10″ home printer. Microsoft PictureIt™ version 1.0 includes an image input screen (“get it” screen) that provides multiple reduced resolution, or “thumbnail”, images, but the thumbnail images must be dragged and dropped one at a time from the preview image type screen to a filmstrip. Next, the user must exit the image input mode and switch to a print layout mode within a “share it” screen. In this mode, the user must drag and drop the first image from the filmstrip into the print layout screen. The user must then manually resize, rotate (if required), and position the first image, for example, in the upper left of the screen. Next, the user selects the second image and manually attempts to properly size and position this image, for example, in the upper right of the screen. Finally, after all four images have been manually resized and positioned, the composite image is ready to print. Thus, creating a page with four equally sized and properly positioned images requires the user to perform many manual operations.
- Other prior art software programs also permit the user to view a two-dimensional array of thumbnail images (sometimes called a “contact sheet” or a “gallery”) to facilitate selection. However, these galleries are used only to select which images may be “opened” by the program for further manual, picture by picture editing. For example, LivePix™ version 1.1 has such a gallery, but it only allows the user to select one image, which is then opened. After the image is opened, it may be manually sized, copied, and pasted into a collage image in a manner similar to PictureIt. MGI Photosuite™ Special Edition includes a “Photo Album” with a gallery type feature. The order of the thumbnail images may be rearranged to later allow a “slideshow” of images to be viewed, one after another in the desired order. But the user cannot select multiple images from the gallery to print or to move to another gallery.
- U.S. Pat. No. 4,607,949 discloses a method of printing photographic images in which a plurality of photographs taken on a photo negative film and explanatory captions of the photographs are printed together on a sheet of photographic paper. U.S. Pat. No. 5,109,281 discloses a video printer adapted for printing multiple images on a single sheet. U.S. Pat. No. 5,274,418 discloses an image processing system which reproduces a plurality of photographs on a single sheet of photographic paper in an album-like format. Although the methods described in the aforementioned patents include photographically printing multiple images per page, a user cannot select multiple images on a computer and automatically print the selected images.
- It is an object of the present invention to provide a method which enables multiple images to be easily printed on a hardcopy printer.
- It is another object of the present invention to provide a method which enables multiple different images to be properly sized and positioned to be printed on a single page.
- It is a further object of the present invention to provide a method which enables a user to easily select one or more images from a preview screen gallery of thumbnail images and automatically print the selected images with several different images properly sized and positioned on each page.
- These objects are achieved in a method for selecting and arranging digital images to be printed from a group of thumbnail images, comprising the steps of:
- (a) displaying the group of thumbnail images;
- (b) selecting, from the group of thumbnail images, the number of images to be printed per page and the images which are to be printed on each page;
- (c) automatically arranging the selected images for each page to be printed; and
- (d) printing the arranged images.
- An advantage of the present invention is to enable a user to select a set of images from a group of thumbnail images to be printed, including the number of images to be printed per page, and to automatically print the selected images.
- Another advantage of the present invention is to enable the selected images to be properly sized and positioned on each page for printing without user intervention.
- FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a system which includes a digital camera that can use the method of the present invention to select digital images from a group of thumbnail images for printing, and arrange and print the images;
- FIG. 2 is a flow diagram in block form showing the method of the present invention;
- FIG. 3 is a diagram of a computer display screen displaying a group of thumbnail images in which a user can select images for printing in accordance with the present invention;
- FIG. 4 is a diagram of a print function display screen in which a user can choose the number of images to appear on each page, the specific images to appear on each page, and the number of copies of each page to be printed in accordance with the present invention;
- FIGS. 5A, 5B, and5C show exemplary page layouts for one page in which two different images are printed, one page in which four different images are printed, and one page in which two copies of the same image are printed, respectively; and
- FIG. 6 is a diagram of a custom layout template screen in which a user can “build” a page template.
- FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of a
system 10 which utilizes the present invention. Thesystem 10 includes a digital image source which is shown as adigital still camera 12; and a user's host computer 14 with a hard drive 16, a central processing unit (CPU) 50, adisplay monitor 52, a keyboard 54, a mouse 55, aprinter 18, and a modem 56. - The digital
still camera 12 is used to capture images, and can be, for example, the Kodak Digital Science DC210™ zoom camera sold by Eastman Kodak Company. The digital stillcamera 12 can be rotated from a landscape orientation to a portrait orientation when certain images are taken to provide the best composition. As shown in FIG. 1, thedigital still camera 12 includes a lens 22 which directs image light from a subject (not shown) upon animage sensor 24, which can be either a conventional charge coupled device (CCD) sensor or a complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) imager. Theimage sensor 24 produces an analog image signal that is converted into a digital image signal by an analog-to-digital (A/D)converter 26. The digitized image signal is processed and compressed by adigital signal processor 28. Thedigital signal processor 28 compresses each still image according to any one of a number of known image compression algorithms, such as well-known JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) discrete cosine transformation-based compression algorithm. Thedigital signal processor 28 applies the compression algorithm to the digital image data, and sends the compressed image data to an image display 36, such as a color liquid crystal display (LCD), where the user can view the captured image. The compressed image signal is then transferred through amemory card interface 30 to aremovable memory card 32 where it is stored.User buttons 34 are used to control the operation of the digitalstill camera 12 in a well known manner. - The
memory card 32 can be adapted to the PCMCIA card interface standard, such as described in the PC Card Standard, Release 2.0, published by the Personal Computer Memory Card International Association, Sunnyvale, Calif., September, 1991. Thememory card 32 accordingly contains solid state memory, such as Flash EPROM memory, which thememory card 32 uses to store image data files. Electrical connection between thememory card 32 and thedigital camera 12 is maintained through a card connector (not shown) positioned in thememory card interface 30. Thememory card interface 30 and the card connector provide, e.g., an interface according to the aforementioned PCMCIA card interface standard. Thememory card 32 can also be inserted into a memory card reader peripheral 40 in the host computer 14 which is also adapted to the PCMCIA interface standard. This enables images stored on thememory card 32 to be downloaded into the host computer 14. The compressed image signal can also be sent to a serial interface 42 of the host computer 14 through either a cable 41, which is connected to thedigital camera 12 through a host computer interface 38, or a wireless interface, such as an infrared interface (not shown). - Alternatively, film exposed in a conventional camera can be developed, scanned and stored on a recordable compact disk (CD-R)58, for example, in the FlashPix™ image format, to provide the digital image input. The CD-
R 58 can be inserted into a compact disk read only memory (CD-ROM) drive 44 in the host computer 14. Similarly, the images can be stored on a floppy diskmagnetic medium 60, such as Kodak's Picture Disk™, to provide the digital image input, and inserted into a floppy disk drive 46 in the host computer 14. In addition, images can be provided by an internet-basedpicture service 62, and downloaded via the modem 56. - The digital images are downloaded to the host computer14 through the CPU 50 and can be stored on the hard drive 16. Application program or software for the present invention is incorporated into the hard drive 16 of the host computer 14, and then downloaded to a computer random access memory (RAM) when the program is used by the CPU 50.
- Preferably, the application software that implements the method of the present invention uses the FlashPix™ image format, described in FlashPix™ Specification, version 1.0, to store and process the images. Images provided by sources in other formats can be converted to the FlashPix™ format.
- Prints of the images can be made on the
printer 18 connected to the host computer 14, for example, onto 8-½ inch paper in a color ink jet printer. It can be appreciated that images could also be sent to a remote printer (not shown), such as the internet-basedpicture service 62, which could support printing of multiple images on a single page. - A flow diagram of the process of the present invention using the application software delivered to the RAM of the CPU50 is shown in FIG. 2. When the user launches the application program (block 100), an introduction screen is displayed (block 102) on the
display 52 of the host computer 14. The user selects the image source (block 104) using a first computer display screen 200 showing various image source selections. The image source selections can include, for example, the digitalstill camera 12, a scanner (not shown), thefloppy disk 60, the CD-R 58, such as the Kodak PhotoCD™ disc, the user's hard drive 14, and images available via the internet-basedpicture service 62. - Once the image source is selected, a “preview picture screen”300 (shown in FIG. 3) is displayed on the display screen 52 (block 106) showing a two-dimensional array of
thumbnail images 302 obtained from the image source. Thethumbnail images 302 preferably have a lower resolution than the actual image data. The user can select multiple images (e.g., five images) by pressing either a control key (not shown) or a shift key (not shown) on the keyboard 54 while clicking the mouse 55 on any number of thumbnail images 302 (block 108). FIG. 3 shows that four thumbnail images 302 a, 302 b, 302 c, and 302 d (which are outlined) have been selected. If theimage source 12 contains a large number ofthumbnail images 302, arrow controls 304 on the right portion of the “preview picture screen” 300 enable the user to scroll through the larger number ofthumbnail images 302 to view a group of the thumbnail images 302 (e.g., 15 thumbnail images) at a time. - Once one or
more thumbnail images 302 have been selected (block 108), the user can choose to rotate the selected images 302 (block 110) by selecting a “rotate” icon 306 (block 111). The computer then automatically rotates the image in a default direction (e.g., 90 degrees clockwise) (block 112), preferably by modifying the FlashPix™ image format viewing parameter, or alternatively, by properly exchanging the row and column image data. - The user can then select additional images (e.g., three images) to be printed with the first group of selected images obtained in
block 108 by again pressing the control key or the shift key on the keyboard 54 while clicking the mouse 55 on any number of thumbnail images 302 (block 114). - The “preview picture screen”300 also displays a set of function icons on the periphery of the
screen 300, including a “local print” icon 308 and a “remote print”icon 310. The user then selects the type of printing. The user can print all of these selected images on thelocal printer 18, for example, a color ink jet printer, by clicking on the “local print” icon 308 (block 116). This brings up a “print function display screen” 400 (block 118) shown in FIG. 4. The user then chooses a type of layout (block 119). The user can choose one of several predefined “layout”icons 402 on the periphery of the “print function display screen” 400 which determines how many pictures appear on each page by selecting, for example, 1, 2, 4, 9, or 16 images to be printed per page (block 120). Once a predefined layout is chosen, the images to be printed appear in aprint preview area 422 on the “print function display screen” 400. Based on the number of selected pictures to be printed on a page, the program will automatically select the orientation of the images to best fill up the page. FIG. 4 shows, as an example, four images 420 a, 420 b, 420 c, and 420 d, which correspond to the selected thumbnail images 302 a, 302 b, 302 c, and 302 d, respectively, shown in FIG. 3. Alternatively, the user can choose to “build” a page template with any number of images per page by selecting a “custom layout template” icon 403 (block 130 in FIG. 2), which will be described in more detail below. - Next, the user chooses whether to have the same or different images appear on each page (block148). To have the same one image repeated on one page to be printed (e.g., four copies of one image per page), the user selects a “grouping” icon 404. Alternatively, to have all of the selected images appear on the page(s) to be printed (e.g., four different images on one page), the user selects a “collating” icon 406.
- The user then chooses the number of sets of images to print (block150), for example, three copies of each laid out page, by typing in the number of desired sets in a
text field 408 on the left portion of the “print function display screen” 400. After making these selections, the user can press a “print now” icon 410 (block 152) and walk away from the host computer 14. Each of the selected images will be printed automatically on the local printer 18 (block 154), without further user interaction. - The program prepares the printed layout by calculating the image size which enables the selected number of images to fit on a page, and rotating the selected images as necessary so that landscape oriented images and portrait oriented images fit together on the page to be printed. The image data is automatically interpolated or decimated to provide the proper image data to fill the page with the selected number of images. In this process, the program also calculates for “white space” to be positioned between the images to facilitate the cutting of the page into individual pictures. In other words, the program calculates the number of the selected images in vertical and horizontal directions, and calculates the size of the selected images in the vertical and horizontal directions to cause “white space” to separate the selected images. When the images are printed, the orientation of the images is printed to best “fill up the page” based on the selected number of images.
- FIGS. 5A, 5B and5C are examples of images which have been printed. FIG. 5A shows two different images (A and B) which have been printed on one page. FIG. 5B shows four different images (A, B, C, and D) which have been printed on one page. In FIG. 5B, the program has automatically rotated the orientation of the four images (A, B, C, and D) so that they fit on one page with minimum “white space” between the images. FIG. 5C shows two copies of the same image (A) which have been printed on one page.
- Instead of choosing to print the image on the local printer18 (block 116 in FIG. 2), the user could choose to instead have the prints made by a remote printing service connected via a network, such as the internet-based
picture service 62, which could support the printing of multiple images. In this case, the user instead selects the “remote print” icon 310 (block 132) on the “print preview screen” 300 shown in FIG. 3. The user completes a connection process (block 133) to the internet-basedpicture service 62 via the modem 56, and the selectedthumbnail images 302 are uploaded and displayed on the display monitor 52 of the host computer 14. The user would select the number of images per page and the number of sets per page (block 134) based on the specific features of the internet-basedpicture service 62. - If the user selects the “custom layout template” icon403 (block 130 in FIG. 2) instead of one of the predefined “layout” icons 402 (block 120), a “custom layout template screen” 600 is displayed (block 140) as shown in FIG. 6. Next, the user selects a custom build option 602 (block 142). In addition, the user selects the number of rows and columns of images to appear on a page (block 144), and selects the size of the images (block 146) by selecting, for example, the size of the horizontal and vertical “white space” between the images (as shown in FIG. 6), or the desired width and height of the images (not shown). The user then exits this “custom layout template screen” 600 and returns to the “print function display screen” 400 shown in FIG. 4. The images to be printed appear in the
print preview area 422 according to the layout built by the user. The user then proceeds to choose whether to have the same or different images appear on each page (block 148 in FIG. 2) and to select the total sets of images to be printed (block 150 in FIG. 2) in a manner previously described. The user can then press the “print now” icon 410 (block 152) so that the selected images are automatically printed on the local printer 18 (block 154). - The program prepares the custom printed layout by rotating the selected images as necessary so that landscape oriented images and portrait images fit together on the page to be printed. The image data is automatically interpolated and decimated to provide the proper image data to fill the page with the selected number of images. In this process, the image is sized based on the “white space” positioned between the images and the number of rows and columns of images specified by the user.
- The invention has been described in detail with particular reference to a preferred embodiment thereof. However, it will be appreciated that variations and modifications can be effected by a person of ordinary skill in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.
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