Abstract: An Order icon is displayed on a user terminal and image data sets to be printed are registered by drag-and-drop operations for the image data sets onto the Order icon. By opening the Order icon, thumbnail images of the registered image data sets are displayed, and print sizes and quantities are input to generate order information. The order information is transferred to an order reception server together with the image data sets, and further transferred to a DPE store where the image data sets are printed.

Abstract: A digital contents set includes encoded low-resolution digital contents obtained by encoding low-resolution digital contents by a first public key, and encoded high-resolution digital contents obtained by encoding high-resolution digital contents by a second public key.

Abstract: Photographic images of local area events are efficiently provided. Each of a plurality of laboratories obtains photographic images of events in their local areas and uploads the images to a management server. The management server stores the images, correlated with area specifying data that specifies the location of the laboratory which has uploaded them. A user transmits the zip code of an area in which an event for which he desires photographic images was held, via an Internet television set. The management server searches for images uploaded by a laboratory in an area that matches the transmitted zip code, and transmits the images to the Internet television set. The user selects desired images. Then, the management server generates and transmits an output command that causes a laboratory to print the images selected by the user.

Abstract: Photographic images of local area events are efficiently provided. Each of a plurality of laboratories obtains photographic images of events in their local areas and uploads the images to a management server. The management server stores the images, correlated with area specifying data that specifies the location of the laboratory which has uploaded them. A user transmits the zip code of an area in which an event for which he desires photographic images was held, via an Internet television set. The management server searches for images uploaded by a laboratory in an area that matches the transmitted zip code, and transmits the images to the Internet television set. The user selects desired images. Then, the management server generates and transmits an output command that causes a laboratory to print the images selected by the user.

Abstract: Photographic images of local area events are efficiently provided. Each of a plurality of laboratories obtains photographic images of events in their local areas and uploads the images to a management server. The management server stores the images, correlated with area specifying data that specifies the location of the laboratory which has uploaded them. A user transmits the zip code of an area in which an event for which he desires photographic images was held, via an Internet television set. The management server searches for images uploaded by a laboratory in an area that matches the transmitted zip code, and transmits the images to the Internet television set. The user selects desired images. Then, the management server generates and transmits an output command that causes a laboratory to print the images selected by the user.

Abstract: A digital contents set includes encoded low-resolution digital contents obtained by encoding low-resolution digital contents by a first public key, and encoded high-resolution digital contents obtained by encoding high-resolution digital contents by a second public key.

Abstract: An Order icon is displayed on a user terminal and image data sets to be printed are registered by drag-and-drop operations for the image data sets onto the Order icon. By opening the Order icon, thumbnail images of the registered image data sets are displayed, and print sizes and quantities are input to generate order information. The order information is transferred to an order reception server together with the image data sets, and further transferred to a DPE store where the image data sets are printed.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a shading data calculating section for two-dimensionally mapping digitized data obtained by photo-electrically detecting uniform light converged by a lens by a two-dimensional sensor, thereby producing two-dimensional shading data whose density signal levels ellipse-like lower outwardly from a center pixel corresponding to the center of the lens to produce one-dimensional shading data from the density signal levels of the two-dimensional shading data on an arbitrary straight line extending outwardly from the center of the center pixel and calculating the angle &thgr; between the straight line used for producing the one-dimensional shading data and the longer axis of the ellipse and the ratio of the longer axis to the shorter axis of the ellipse, a shading data memory for storing the one-dimensional shading data, the angle &thgr; and the ratio of the longer axis to the shorter axis of the ellipse, a shading correction data producing section for producing shading correctio