Patent ID: 11881008
Assignee: INTUITIVE RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 10:
11. A computer system configured to encode an enhanced image with non-image data and with image data, where the non-image data is distinct from the image data in that the image data is limited to defining attributes associated with an image while the non-image data is unlimited and can describe data other than image attributes, said computer system comprising:
one or more processors; and
one or more computer-readable hardware storage devices that store instructions that are executable by the one or more processors to cause the computer system to at least:
access an image, wherein the image comprises one or more pixels, and wherein each pixel in the one or more pixels is associated with a corresponding one or more color channels;
for a selected pixel that is selected from among the one or more pixels, encode image data into a selected color channel that is selected from among the selected pixel's corresponding one or more color channels; and
for the selected pixel, encode non-image data into a second color channel of the selected pixel, wherein:
an index provides a mapping as to where the non-image data has been encoded in the image, and
as a result of (i) encoding the image data into the selected color channel and (ii) encoding the non-image data into the second color channel, an enhanced image is generated.