Patent ID: 8120613

Claim:
A method for writing digital image data in an image file system comprising: receiving input digital image data and an indicator of whether said input digital image data is streaming digital image data or non-streaming digital image data; if said input digital image data is non-streaming digital image data: writing said non-streaming digital image data to persistent storage media using buffered mode write operation by native operating system input/output support; if said input digital image data is streaming digital image data: buffering said streaming digital image data into a plurality of frame buffers within an individual input/output buffer of streaming digital image input/output memory; and writing said streaming digital image data from said frame buffers and input/output buffers to said persistent storage media using unbuffered mode write operation by said native operating system input/output support; and dynamically reconfiguring said plurality of frame buffers by automatically partitioning said frame buffers in response to received data indicating pixel dimensions of a single frame, for efficient transfer of data without system reboot to store a plurality of frames of an image series in a contiguous multi-frame array.