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Storage and playback of digitized images in digital database together with presentation control file to define image orientation/aspect ratio

  • US 5,270,831 A
  • Filed: 09/14/1990
  • Issued: 12/14/1993
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/14/1990
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. For use with a digital image processing system in which images are digitized by an opto-electronic device for storage in a digital database, a method of storing said digitized images in said digital database comprising the steps of:

  • (a) storing in said digital database respective image data files associated with each of said digitized images, each digitized image having an orientation and an aspect ratio; and

    (b) storing, together with each of the respective image data files stored in said digital database in step (a), a presentation control file which contains at least one of first data representative of the orientation of the associated digitized image as stored by said digital database and second data representative of the aspect ratio of the associated digitized image as stored by said digital database.

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