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 optical medium 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, the archived images arranged as a sequence of adjacent tiles on a recording layer of the optical medium each tile having an associated length and width, the control data comprising at least one identification (ID) tile adjacent the archived tiles having an associated length and width selected in relation to the length and width of each of the tiles.
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;
- 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, the substrate characterized as a master substrate;
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- a replication block which generates a population of nominally identical replicated substrates from the master substrate.
A method of archiving images, comprising:
- using a write beam of a recording device to impinge a recording layer of a master substrate to store a plurality of archived images in a human detectable form and control data associated with the archived images on the master substrate;
- forming a nominally identical replica substrate from the master substrate;
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- retrieving at least a selected one of the archived images from the replica substrate using a readback device which optically detects the images from the replica substrate and outputs the detected images for display on a display device.
An optical medium 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, the archived images arranged as a sequence of adjacent tiles, each tile having an associated length of about 25 microns (μm) or less and an associated width of about 25 μm or less.
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