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

Claim 18:
19. A computer system configured to decode an enhanced image comprising non-image data and 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 enhanced image, wherein the enhanced 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;
access an index that maps where non-image data has been encoded in the enhanced image;
for a selected pixel that is selected from among the one or more pixels, decode image data that has been encoded in a first color channel of the selected pixel;
for the selected pixel, decode non-image data that has been encoded in a second color channel of the selected pixel, wherein the index is used to identify that the second color channel is storing the non-image data;
generate an image based on the image data; and
generate a file comprising the non-image data.