Patent ID: 8041156
Filing Date: 2011-10-18
Classification: G16H

Abstract:
1. A system for storing image data objects and for retrieving the image data objects, the system comprising: a memory for storing imaging data objects, each image data object being stored in a single-frame image data standard or a multi-frame image data standard; and a processor coupled to the memory configured to: wherein the external imaging device supports at least one of the single-frame image data standard or the multi-frame image data standard; wherein the workflow request type is a retrieve type for retrieving one or more requested image data objects from the memory or a store type for storing one or more requested image data objects to the memory; wherein each single-frame image data object comprises pixel data associated with one or more meta-data attributes; and wherein the processor converting a first requested single-frame image data object and a second requested single-frame image data to the multi-frame image data standard comprises the steps of: (i) determining one or more shared meta-data attributes of the first and second requested image data objects by determining which of the one or more meta-data attributes of the first requested image data object and the one or more meta-data attributes of the second requested image data object are the same; (ii) associating the shared meta-data attributes from (i) as one entity within a multi-frame image data object; and (iii) associating the pixel data of the first requested image data object and the pixel data of the second requested image data object as separate entities within the multi-frame image data object.