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Storage and retrieval of digitized photographic images

  • US 5,448,372 A
  • Filed: 12/18/1991
  • Issued: 09/05/1995
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/18/1991
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. For use with a digitized image processing system in which images that have been captured on an image recording medium are converted into digital format and stored as digitized image data files on a transportable digital data storage medium, a method of controlling the manner in which digitized images are accessed therefrom for storage comprising the steps of:

  • (a) causing a digital data recording device to store, on said transportable digital data storage medium, respective data files associated with each of the images that have been digitized from images captured on said image recording medium, each of said data files containing digitized imagery data representative of its associated image as captured on said image recording medium;

    (b) for each of said respective data files, causing said digital data recording device to store, on said transportable digital data storage medium, a presentation file, the contents of which represent the manner in which its associated digitized imagery data has been captured, on said image recording medium;

    (c) providing an image retrieval device, which contains a digital data memory having a storage capacity which is different from the resolution of the image represented by the contents of a digitized image data file stored on said transportable digital data storage medium;

    (d) transporting said transportable digital data storage medium on which digital data files and presentation files have been stored in steps (a) and (b) to said image retrieval device and coupling said transportable digital data storage medium to said image retrieval device; and

    (e) causing said image retrieval device to read out, from said transportable digital data storage medium, the digitized imagery data of a respective data file stored in step (a) and to write the read out digitized imagery data into said digital data memory of said image retrieval device in a manner that depends upon the contents of its associated presentation file stored on said transportable digital data storage medium in step (b).

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