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Computer based multimedia medical database management system and user interface

  • US 5,740,428 A
  • Filed: 02/07/1995
  • Issued: 04/14/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/07/1995
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A database management system for a database of multimedia data objects visually presentable to a user in hard copy form, wherein each of the data objects includes pixel values and has an associated unique identifier, comprising:

  • an encoder responsive to signals corresponding to the unique identifier associated with a data object for generating an array of pixel values corresponding to a bit map of a machine readable identifying indicia representative of the unique identifier;

    an adder for adding the pixel values corresponding to a bit map of the machine readable identifying indicia to the pixel values of the data object to integrate the machine readable identifying indicia with the data object;

    a hard copy generator for generating a hard copy of the data object and the integrated machine readable identifying indicia;

    a detector device for generating signals indicative of the bit map of the integrated machine readable identifying indicia from the hard copy; and

    a decoder responsive to the signals indicative of the bit map of the integrated machine readable identifying indicia.

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