US 2010/0320267 A1 · Method and Device for Accessing Microforms

Abstract

The invention pertains to a method for reading analog and/or digital data stored on a microform in fields by means of a device for accessing the microform, which is connected to a data processing system by a hardware interface. The invention also pertains to a device for implementing the method and to a microform. So that the data acquired by the device can be subjected to further processing in a conventional personal computer, it is proposed according to the invention that the analog and/or digital data stored on the microform be presented to the data processing system by a control unit of the device as if the microform were a conventional removable data storage medium. Finally, an advantageous microform is described, the data on which can be read out quickly and which, because of its design, is suitable for the long-term, safe archiving of data, especially digital data.

Claims15

Dependent claims

-12. (canceled)

A method for reading at least one of analog and digital data stored in fields on a microform by means of a device for accessing the microform which is connected to a data processing system by a hardware interface, the method comprising:

reading, by a control unit of the device, the at least one of analog and digital data stored on the microform;
and
presenting, by the control unit, the at least one of analog and digital data stored on the microform to the data processing system as if the microform were a removable data storage medium.

A device for accessing a microform with at least one of analog and digital data stored in fields, the device comprising:

a unit for drawing the microform into a receiving slot of the device and ejecting the microform from the receiving slot;
at least one scanning unit for scanning the microform received in the device, the scanning unit comprising at least one electromagnetic radiation source arranged on one side of the microform and at least one electronic sensor on an opposing side of the microform, said at least one electronic sensor converting the different degrees of transparency of the microfiche film of the microform to the electromagnetic radiation into electrical signals;
and
a program-controlled control unit configured to receive the at least one of analog and digital data stored on the microfilm acquired by the scanning unit and to present the at least one of analog and digital data stored on the microform to the data processing system (PC) in the form of data on a removable data storage medium.

1 more element

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

12/812,211Filed 8 Jan 2009

Priority

DE 10-2008-004-403.214 Jan 2008

Published

23 Dec 2010

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

G06K 17/0019
Selecting or retrieving of images by means of their associated code-marks, e.g. coded microfilm or microfiche: for images on filmstrips
G03B 21/11
Projectors with built-in or built-on screen: for microfilm reading
H04N 1/00204
Connection or combination of a still picture apparatus with another apparatus, e.g. for storage, processing or transmission of still picture…:…
H04N 2201/0046
Details of the connection, e.g. connector, interface: software interface details, e.g. interaction of operating systems

Method and Device for Accessing Microforms

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