EASY PRINTING OF VISUAL IMAGES EXTRACTED FROM A COLLECTION OF VISUAL IMAGES

摘要

The invention facilitates producing prints of visual images extracted from a collection of visual images (e.g., visual recording, collection of still visual images). The invention facilitates producing the prints by automatically identifying visual images to be printed (202) in response to the receipt of a request from a user to produce prints from the collection of visual images (201). The invention can further facilitate producing the prints by enabling the request to be effected by a single input to a user input apparatus (104). The request to produce prints can be communicated via a network to a print production site that produces the prints and provides the prints to the user. The request to produce prints can also cause the visual images, the collection of visual images and/or indices identifying the visual images, to be stored on portable data storage media (101) together with, if necessary or desirable, computer program(s) and/or data structure(s) for producing prints of the visual images (203).