Digital optical tape storage system
AssigneeGroup 47, Inc.
InventorDaniel Scott Rosen
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Abstract
Digital optical tape archival storage systems and methods are disclosed. A digital optical tape recorder may simultaneously write data and two or more guide tracks onto a digital optical tape recording medium. A digital optical taper reader may include a camera comprising an array of detectors to capture a two-dimensional image of the digital optical tape recording medium, and an image processor to extract the data from the two-dimensional image. The camera may capture the two-dimensional image of the digital optical tape recording medium without aligning individual data bits recorded on the digital optical tape recording medium to individual detectors within the camera.
Claims5
A digital optical tape archival storage system comprising:
- a digital optical tape recorder configured to simultaneously write data and two or more guide tracks onto a digital optical tape recording medium, the two or more guide tracks including fiduciary markers at periodic intervals along a length of the digital optical tape recording medium;
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- a digital optical tape reader comprising:
- a camera comprising an array of detectors to capture a two-dimensional image of the digital optical tape recording medium without one-to-one alignment of individual data bits recorded on the digital optical tape recording medium to individual detectors within the camera, and
- an image processor to extract the data from the two-dimensional image based, at least in part, on locations of the fiduciary markers within the two-dimensional image.
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