Image archive disc
AssigneeDoug Carson & Associates, Inc.
InventorDouglas M. Carson
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Abstract
Method and apparatus for storing archive images to a substrate, such as a rotatable optical disc. In some embodiments, the substrate stores a plurality of archived images in a human detectable form on a surface of the substrate and further stores control data associated with the archived images to facilitate optical recovery of said human detectable images from the surface.
Claims20
An apparatus comprising a substrate which stores a plurality of archived images in a human detectable form on a surface of the substrate and control data associated with the archived images to facilitate optical recovery of said human detectable images from the surface.
A system for forming an image archive substrate, comprising:
- an image layout system which generates input data corresponding to a plurality of human detectable archive images;
- a control data generator which generates control data associated with the archive images;
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- a recording device which impinges a recording layer of a substrate with a write beam to store the archive images in a human detectable form and to store the control data to facilitate optical recovery of the archive images from the recording layer.
A method of archiving images, comprising:
- using a write beam of a recording device to store a plurality of archived images in a human detectable form and control data associated with the archived images on a substrate;
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- retrieving at least a selected one of the archived images using a readback device which optically detects the images from the substrate and outputs the detected images for display on a display device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.