Patent BG-103661-A (BG)
Title: Automated system for image archivation
Inventor: OVERTON JOHN
IPC: H04L29/12
Filed: 1999-08-12
Abstract: The invention relates to a method for obtaining universal application for looking for and finding images (patterns). It ensures a functional application out of which any pattern producing device can construct automatically generated archive numbers. An encoding programme is used based on location numbers, numbers for the images (patterns) and the number of mothers provided for from the formal specifications. The location numbers encode information about the logical sequence in the archive, the numbers for the image (pattern) encode information about the physical attributes of one image (pattern) and the number of mothers store the date and time of receiving the mother of a given image (pattern). The interrelation mother-child are algorithmically extracted from the location numbers and the number of mothers and their interrelations and in this way completely restorable, cumulative information about the origin of the image (pattern) is ensured. The encoding programme is optimized for usage with all now and in the future used bar-code symbols in order to facilitate the transporation of the information across the different technolgies, i.e. negatives to imprints of photographs to computers. The system applied is non-problem compatible with the traditional systems for data base restoration, based on the principle "key-driven", as well as with mobile decoding systems which are capable of reading their own data bases directly from image (patterns). The encoding programme applied maintains all now existing devices for pattern (image) and carriers formation, such as devices for videorecording, scanners, photocopying machines, MRI machines, and others. All available formats of carriers such as films digital, paper and other ones are maintained and the encoding ensures unrestricted expansion for additional formats. The time marking is admissible for any time measuring unit, for example from month to nanosecond and even smaller, and one archive can contain any number of images (patterns) and others. Considerable number of subsets of encoding programmes are applied by the instrument encoding or decoding searching numbers which are designed for computer sorting, and in this way being suitable for manipulation with data bases. The application of the method will make it possible in the publication of a newspaper to automatically make a film "collage". The search and finding of transformation in the time of the productions and the development of clients' campaigns is possible automatically. In photography it is possible to automate the procedures of searching and finding. In the medical industry images (patterns) of slides of cultures, X-ray photos or images (patterns) from scanners can receive automatic archive numbers. In the museum display it is possible to find exhibits by portable bar-code readers. The information can be transferred from any to any other type of application and from any carrier format to any other carrier format. As every image (pattern) has a localization number devoted to it, numbers of the image (pattern) and number of the mother but not any form of thematic classification, the automatically designed organization can be included in any type of specialized or general classification programmes, such as inclusion in complex topological systems such as libraries or any other similar systems. 12 claims, 7 figures