WO1984002201A1 - Medium for recording visual images and laser written data - Google Patents
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- the invention relates to optical data recording media and more particularly to an information medium containing both photographic images and laser recorded direct-read-after-write (DRAW) reflective data.
- DRAW direct-read-after-write
- Identification cards have used magnetic data strips in conjunction with photographic prints of the card owner.
- Drexler discloses a bank card for automatic teler machines bearing both a strip of magnetic recording material and a direct-read-after-write reflective laser recording material. The card may be provided with other identification means, e.g., a photograph of the card user.
- Domo discloses a medical record card containing a microfilm portion having some data visible to the eye and other data visible by magnification. The directly visible data pertains to emergency medical conditions of the patient and the magnifiable data portions detail the medical history.
- a mass data storage disc for images and data is described in
- a plastic disc is stamped out from a glass master on which microminiature copies of catalog pages and interspersed bar code digital data are recorded on photoresist in concentric rings.
- the microphotograph on the disc is apparently read by optically scanning the rings, forming a serial data stream, until the image is re-created, line by line.
- the image is then magnified and displayed on a screen.
- An object of the invention is to provide a means of recording directly on a film slide, strip, or microfiche, both a visual display and data to accompany that image either prior to, during, or after exposure forming such image.
- a photosensitive film having, on at least one edge, a strip of reflective metallic, laser recordable, material.
- the film could be either unexposed or exposed film in plates, strips, or roll configuration.
- a laser beam records data on the strip of reflective recordable material either by ablation of the metal forming cavities or by deformation forming pits thereby producing differences in reflectivity detectable by a light detector.
- data concerning the visual image may be recorded and read directly from the strip.
- the reflective strip may contain prerecorded data, concurrently recorded data or data recorded after exposure of the photosensitive film portion of the medium.
- the uniform surface reflectivity of this reflective strip before recording typically would range between 15% and 65%. For best mode of operation a reflectivity of 25% to 50% would normally be used. The average reflectivity over a laser recorded hole might be in the range of 6% to 12%. Thus, the reflective contrast ratio of the recorded holes, would range between 2:1 and 8:1. Photographic pre-formatting would create spots having a reflectivity of 10%. Processing of the exposed silver halide emulsion does not affect the recordability of the reflective strip. If the substrate used is transparent, the recorded data may also be read by light transmission through recorded holes. Films of metallurgical cross-sections, geological strata, tissue sections, geophysical data such as oil and gas wells may be permanently stored with interpretive data.
- An advantage of the invention is that laser recorded data will not be separated from corresponding image data and both will have similar archival properties.
- Fig. 1 is a top view of a first embodiment of the recording medium of the present invention.
- Fig. 2 is a top view of the second embodiment of the present invention.
- Figs. 3—6 are alternate sectional constructions of the medium of Fig. 1 taken along lines A— A in Fig. 1.
- Fig. 7 is a partial sectional view of an alternate embodiment of the medium of Fig. 1.
- Fig. 8 is a plan view of optical apparatus for reading and writing on the data strip portion of the medium illustrated in Fig. 1.
- the recording medium of the present invention may be seen to comprise a photosensitive medium 11 having a planar major surface 13 which is divided into a photographic image areas 15 and a data strip 17.
- Photosensitive medium 11 is preferably photographic film in sheet form, for example X-ray film, plate film, microfiche film or high resolution photoplates of the type used in the semiconductor industry.
- the photographic image areas 15 are conventional photographic images, produced by usual photographic techniques, typically by exposure and develop ⁇ ment of the film.
- the image areas 15 may occupy the entirety of the film, except for the data strip, or discrete areas as shown in Fig. 1.
- the discrete areas may resemble motion picture film or roll film or microfiche film where several images are disposed on a unitary film member. Alternatively, only a single image may be on the film.
- the present invention features an optical data strip 17 which is a direct read-after-write (DRAW) material which may have either pre ⁇ recorded information or user-written information, or both.
- DRAW direct read-after-write
- the type of DRAW material used is relatively highly reflective material which forms a shiny field against pits, craters or holes in the reflective surface which tend to be absorptive of light energy.
- the contrast differences between the pits and the shiny reflective field surrounding the pits cause variations at a detector when the pits are illuminated by light of lesser intensity than the light that originally created the pits.
- Data strip 17 is intended to provide an archival data record accompanying the photographic images on the same material in the same way that a movie sound track accompanies individual frames of film.
- Data is written in individual tracks extending in a longitudinal direction, as indicated by the pit patterns 19 and these pit patterns are analogous to sound track on a film, except that the data tracks contain a much higher density of information and are usually read in reflection, rather than in transmission.
- the information density is greater because each of the pits in the pit pattern is approximately 5 microns in diameter with a spacing of about 5—20 microns between pits.
- the pits may be either digital or analog data, but in either case are recorded by a laser in the usual way, for example as shown in U.S.
- FIG. 2 is similar to Fig. 1 except that a larger photosensitive medium 21 is used with a plurality of rows of images 23, 25 and 27. Accompanying each row of images is a corresponding data strip 33, 35 and 37. These data strips are analogous in construction to the strip of Fig. 1. Once again, it is not necessary that each row have individually different images. Each row may consist of either multiple images or a single image.
- the embodiment of Fig. 2 is a microfiche type medium where each row of images would have corresponding data on a data strip. The images are such that they can be viewed with the naked eye or with low power (magnification) optical systems. -On the other hand, the data strips may not be read with the naked eye, but require either microscopic inspection or preferably reading by reflection of a scanning laser beam as explained below.
- OMPI Fig. 3 illustrates a first construction of the recording medium shown in Fig. 1.
- the sectional view includes a substrate 22 which is transparent and may be glass or one of the many polymeric substrate materials known in photographic arts.
- a subbing layer not shown
- an emulsion layer 24 Applied to the substrate 22 is a subbing layer, not shown, and an emulsion layer 24.
- This emulsion layer has a photographic image area 15 made by exposure and development in the usual way.
- the wavy lines 26 represent filamentary black silver particles which characterize normal photographic black and clear images.
- Data strip 17 is a laser recording material made from silver-halide emulsion having fine grain size, less than 0.1 microns, by a silver diffusion transfer process described in U.S. patent 4,312,938 (Drexler and Bouldin), incorporated by reference herein. The data strip 17 is made prior to processing the image areas 15.
- silver-halide emulsion is exposed to a non-saturating level of actinic radiation to activate silver halide.
- the activated emulsion is then photographically developed to a gray color of an optical density of 0.05—2.0 to red light, forming an absorptive underlayer.
- the surface of the emulsion strip is then fogged by a fogging agent such as borohydride to produce silver precipitating nuclei from the part of the unexposed and undeveloped silver-halide emulsion.
- the strip is then contacted with a monobath containing a silver-halide solvent and a silver reducing agent to complex, transfer and reduce the remaining unexposed and undeveloped silver to reflective non-filamentary silver at the nuclei sites on the surface.
- the reflective layer contains from 20% to 50% silver particles of which 1% to 50% may be filamentary silver formed in the initial development step. Beneath the reflective layer is an absorptive underlayer.
- the reflective surface layer is characterized by non-filamentary particles 28 overlying a concentration of filamentary particles which form the absorptive underlayer.
- Separating the data strip from the image area is an unprocessed silver-halide buffer area 30 which would remain generally clear since it is neither exposed nor developed.
- the buffer area 30 is not necessary, but is desirable because chemical processing of data strip 17 differs from the processing of image area 15.
- the buffer area 30 may be fixed to remove silver halide so that the area will remain clear. This is optional. Both processes may occur by spraying of chemicals onto the surface of the film, with a mask covering buffer area 30. Such spray processing is well known in photolithography. However, in the present case it may be necessary to proceed in two steps. In the first step, conventional photographic processing of image area 26 takes place.
- a transparent layer 32 is applied to the emulsion, forming a protective layer.
- Layer 32 may be any of the well known protective coatings, including a layer of clear gelatin.
- Data strip 17 can also be added to the photographic film in the form of an adhesive tape which is bonded to the photographic film either before or after the film is developed.
- Fig. 4 is similar to Fig. 3 except that substrate 34 is coated only with silver-halide emulsion to the right of line 36. The image area 15 is exposed, developed and fixed. A protective coating 38 may then be applied. A preformed strip 40 of laser recording material may then be disposed on the substrate.
- This may be a strip of Drexon material. Drexon is a trademark of Drexler Technology Corporation for reflective silver based laser recording material, such as that described in the aforementioned U.S. patent 4,312,938.
- Such a preformed strip of laser recording material would have its own thin substrate 39 carrying the emulsion layer.
- the recording material could be any of the other direct-read-after-write laser recording materials, for example such as that described in U.S.
- Materials which are preferred are those having high reflectivity and low melting point, particularly Cd, Sn, Tl, Ind, Bi and amalgams. These materials may be deposited directly on substrate 34, as by sputtering, or may be premanufactured on a very thin substrate and adhered to the substrate by means of a subbing layer. After adhering the DRAW material to the substrate, a transparent protective coating 44 is applied. This coating material may be the same as protective material 38.
- substrate 52 has a notch or groove 54 which allows placement of a DRAW material 56 therein.
- This DRAW material may be processed in situ from silver-halide material previously existing in the groove, as in the case of Fig. 3, or preexisting DRAW material which is placed in the groove, as with the preexisting DRAW material of Fig. 4. In either ease, the photographic image area 15 is exposed and
- MFI developed in the usual way, while an unexposed and undeveloped area 58 protects data strip 56. Since emulsion area 58 is unexposed and undeveloped, it remains clear and forms a protective layer over the data strip.
- a photographic image area 15 is exposed and developed in the usual way, with the remainder of the substrate being covered with emulsion which is masked and protected from exposure and development, forming a protected region 62.
- a strip of DRAW material 64 is positioned on top of the protected region 62 .
- This DRAW material may be formed in situ by application of a silver-halide emulsion strip which is then processed, as data strip 17 in Fig. 3 is processed, or may be a preformed strip which is applied as in Fig. 4.
- the strip is then covered with a protective coating 66.
- a substrate 70 which carries a photographic image in a substrate portion not shown. This image may be above the substrate surface or within a groove of the substrate, as previously mentioned.
- the substrate carries a secondary substrate 72 which is a thin flexible material, only a few mils thick carrying a DRAW material 74.
- the secondary substrate 72 is adhered to the primary substrate 70 by means of an adhesive or sticky substance, similar to dry adhesives found on tape.
- the DRAW material may be any of the materials previously discussed, such as DREXON material, except that the secondary substrate 72 is substituted for the substrate previously mentioned.
- a protective coating 76 is applied over the DRAW material.
- a portion of an image area is converted to a non-image area by application of the sticky DRAW material.
- the DRAW material rests above developed silver- halide emulsion, resembling Fig. 6, except that the emulsion is completely exposed and developed in the region underlying the secondary substrate.
- a strip of DRAW material is positioned adjacent one or more photographic images for providing archival data storage of a similar quality for data as for the photo image. Remarks in the form of alphanumerics or voice may be recorded adjacent to the photographic image. By this means these two forms of communication will not be separated.
- This arrangement is of particular value to add analytical information to X-rays used for medical purposes, or for non-destructive testing
- OMPI or to add to photomicrographies of biological objects or metallurgical structures.
- a laser apparatus is illustrated in Fig. 8, which illustrates the side view of the lengthwise dimension of the medium of Fig. 1 consisting of a data strip in combination with photo images.
- the data strip portion 41 of the medium is usually received in a movable holder 42 whieh brings the strip into the trajectory of a laser beam.
- a laser light source 43 preferably a pulsed semiconductor laser of infrared wavelength emits a beam 45 which passes through coHimating and focusing optics 47.
- the beam is sampled by a beam splitter 49 whieh transmits a portion of the beam through a focusing lens 51 to a photodetector 53.
- the detector 53 confirms laser writing and is not essential.
- the beam is then directed to a first servo controlled mirror 55 which is mounted for rotation along axis 57 in the direction indicated by arrows B.
- the purpose of the mirror 55 is to find the lateral edges of the data strip in a coarse mode of operation and then in a fine mode of operation identify data paths which exist predetermined distances from the edges.
- the beam is directed toward a mirror 61. This mirror is mounted for rotation at pivot 63.
- the purpose of mirror 55 is for fine control of motion of the beam along the length of the data strip.
- Coarse control of the lengthwise portion of the data strip relative to the beam is achieved by motion of the movable holder 42.
- the position of the holder may be established by a linear motor adjusted by a closed loop position servo system of the type used in magnetic disk drives. Reference position in ⁇ formation may be prerecorded on the card so that position error signals may be generated and used as feedback in motor control.
- the mirror 55 Upon reading one data path, the mirror 55 is slightly rotated. The motor moves holder 42 lengthwise so that the path can be read again, and so on. As light is scattered and reflected from pits in the DRAW material, the reflectivity of the beam changes relative to surrounding material where no pits exist.
- the beam should deliver sufficient laser energy to the surface of the recording material to create pits in the data writing mode, but should not cause disruption of the surface so as to cause difficulty in the data reading mode.
- the wavelength of the laser should be compatible with the recording material to achieve this purpose.
- power is approximately 5% to 10% of the recording or writing power.
- Differences in reflectivity between a pit and surrounding material are detected by light detector 65 which may be a photodiode.
- Light is focused onto detector 65 by beam splitter 67 and focusing lens 69.
- Servo motors not shown, control the positions of the mirrors and drive the mirrors in accord with instructions received from control circuits, as well as from feedback devices.
- the detector 65 produces eleetrieal signals corresponding to pits.
- Other optics could be used to observe the photo images, while data is being read or written on the data strip.
- a photodetector array such as a CCD could also be used. It could be either a linear array or area array. The number of detector elements per track would be approximately three elements to create a reading redundancy. The surface would be illuminated with low-cost light-emitting diodes generating power primarily in the near infra-red to match the sensitivity spectrum of the photodetector array.
Abstract
An optical data and image medium (11) having a visual image area (15) and a laser recordable reflective direct-read-after-write data strip (17) in proximity to the image area. The medium is made from photographic film to which data strip (17) is joined. Data may be recorded on the reflective strip (17) by a laser beam priorto, during, or after photographic exposure of the visual image areas (15), thereby providing a compact record for archival storage of data-visual information.
Description
Description
Medium for Recording Visual Images And Laser Written Data
Cross Reference to Related Application
This is a continuation-in-part of patent application Serial No. 238,832 filed February 27, 1981, now U.S. patent No. 4,360,728, granted November 23, 1982, and patent application Serial No. 238,833, filed February 27, 1981.
Technical Field
The invention relates to optical data recording media and more particularly to an information medium containing both photographic images and laser recorded direct-read-after-write (DRAW) reflective data.
Background Art
In the past, the motion picture industry has employed sound track recording on a 0.254 em. wide strip of the 35mm film carrying visual images. Sound is usually recorded on film by means of varying the exposure to light corresponding to sound vibrations. Synchronization of sound with pictures allows video images to be accompanied by analog data regarding the images.
Identification cards have used magnetic data strips in conjunction with photographic prints of the card owner. In U.S. Patent 4,360,728, Drexler discloses a bank card for automatic teler machines bearing both a strip of magnetic recording material and a direct-read-after-write reflective laser recording material. The card may be provided with other identification means, e.g., a photograph of the card user. In U.S. Patent 4,236,332, Domo discloses a medical record card containing a microfilm portion having some data visible to the eye and other data visible by magnification. The directly visible data pertains to emergency medical conditions of the patient and the magnifiable data portions detail the medical history. A mass data storage disc for images and data is described in
Electronics, October 20, 1982, p. 47. A plastic disc is stamped out from a
glass master on which microminiature copies of catalog pages and interspersed bar code digital data are recorded on photoresist in concentric rings. The microphotograph on the disc is apparently read by optically scanning the rings, forming a serial data stream, until the image is re-created, line by line. The image is then magnified and displayed on a screen.
In the field of archival data storage, it is frequently necessary to store audio-visual information. Adding digital information by means of a small laser recorder could be of considerable value for stored microfiche, microfilm, 35 mm slides, motion picture film, microscope photographs, X-ray pictures and CAT-scan pictures. Such add-on records have a potential of getting separated from the recorded film during storage in medical archives. Even if not separated, the differences in archival storage properties, say between film and paper, pose storage problems.
An object of the invention is to provide a means of recording directly on a film slide, strip, or microfiche, both a visual display and data to accompany that image either prior to, during, or after exposure forming such image.
Disclosure of the Invention The above objects have been met with a photosensitive film having, on at least one edge, a strip of reflective metallic, laser recordable, material. The film could be either unexposed or exposed film in plates, strips, or roll configuration. A laser beam records data on the strip of reflective recordable material either by ablation of the metal forming cavities or by deformation forming pits thereby producing differences in reflectivity detectable by a light detector. In this manner, data concerning the visual image may be recorded and read directly from the strip. For microfiche, microfilm, 35 mm slides, motion picture film, microscope photographs X-ray films and CAT-scan films, descriptive, analytical or interpretative data may be integrated with the picture record and both stored together. The reflective strip may contain prerecorded data, concurrently recorded data or data recorded after exposure of the photosensitive film portion of the medium.
No processing after laser recording is required or the recording strip since it is a direct-read-after-write material. The uniform surface reflectivity of this reflective strip before recording typically would range between 15% and 65%. For best mode of operation a reflectivity of 25%
to 50% would normally be used. The average reflectivity over a laser recorded hole might be in the range of 6% to 12%. Thus, the reflective contrast ratio of the recorded holes, would range between 2:1 and 8:1. Photographic pre-formatting would create spots having a reflectivity of 10%. Processing of the exposed silver halide emulsion does not affect the recordability of the reflective strip. If the substrate used is transparent, the recorded data may also be read by light transmission through recorded holes. Films of metallurgical cross-sections, geological strata, tissue sections, geophysical data such as oil and gas wells may be permanently stored with interpretive data.
An advantage of the invention is that laser recorded data will not be separated from corresponding image data and both will have similar archival properties.
Brief Description of the Drawings
Fig. 1 is a top view of a first embodiment of the recording medium of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is a top view of the second embodiment of the present invention. Figs. 3—6 are alternate sectional constructions of the medium of Fig. 1 taken along lines A— A in Fig. 1.
Fig. 7 is a partial sectional view of an alternate embodiment of the medium of Fig. 1.
Fig. 8 is a plan view of optical apparatus for reading and writing on the data strip portion of the medium illustrated in Fig. 1.
Best Mode for Carrying out the Invention
With reference to Fig. 1, the recording medium of the present invention may be seen to comprise a photosensitive medium 11 having a planar major surface 13 which is divided into a photographic image areas 15 and a data strip 17. Photosensitive medium 11 is preferably photographic film in sheet form, for example X-ray film, plate film, microfiche film or high resolution photoplates of the type used in the semiconductor industry. The photographic image areas 15 are conventional photographic images, produced by usual photographic techniques, typically by exposure and develop¬ ment of the film. The image areas 15 may occupy the entirety of the film, except for the data strip, or discrete areas as shown in Fig. 1. The discrete
areas may resemble motion picture film or roll film or microfiche film where several images are disposed on a unitary film member. Alternatively, only a single image may be on the film.
The present invention features an optical data strip 17 which is a direct read-after-write (DRAW) material which may have either pre¬ recorded information or user-written information, or both. The type of DRAW material used is relatively highly reflective material which forms a shiny field against pits, craters or holes in the reflective surface which tend to be absorptive of light energy. The contrast differences between the pits and the shiny reflective field surrounding the pits cause variations at a detector when the pits are illuminated by light of lesser intensity than the light that originally created the pits.
Data strip 17 is intended to provide an archival data record accompanying the photographic images on the same material in the same way that a movie sound track accompanies individual frames of film. Data is written in individual tracks extending in a longitudinal direction, as indicated by the pit patterns 19 and these pit patterns are analogous to sound track on a film, except that the data tracks contain a much higher density of information and are usually read in reflection, rather than in transmission. The information density is greater because each of the pits in the pit pattern is approximately 5 microns in diameter with a spacing of about 5—20 microns between pits. The pits may be either digital or analog data, but in either case are recorded by a laser in the usual way, for example as shown in U.S. patent 4,278,756 to Bouldin, et al. Fig. 2 is similar to Fig. 1 except that a larger photosensitive medium 21 is used with a plurality of rows of images 23, 25 and 27. Accompanying each row of images is a corresponding data strip 33, 35 and 37. These data strips are analogous in construction to the strip of Fig. 1. Once again, it is not necessary that each row have individually different images. Each row may consist of either multiple images or a single image. The embodiment of Fig. 2 is a microfiche type medium where each row of images would have corresponding data on a data strip. The images are such that they can be viewed with the naked eye or with low power (magnification) optical systems. -On the other hand, the data strips may not be read with the naked eye, but require either microscopic inspection or preferably reading by reflection of a scanning laser beam as explained below.
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Fig. 3 illustrates a first construction of the recording medium shown in Fig. 1. The sectional view includes a substrate 22 which is transparent and may be glass or one of the many polymeric substrate materials known in photographic arts. Applied to the substrate 22 is a subbing layer, not shown, and an emulsion layer 24. This emulsion layer has a photographic image area 15 made by exposure and development in the usual way. The wavy lines 26 represent filamentary black silver particles which characterize normal photographic black and clear images. Data strip 17 is a laser recording material made from silver-halide emulsion having fine grain size, less than 0.1 microns, by a silver diffusion transfer process described in U.S. patent 4,312,938 (Drexler and Bouldin), incorporated by reference herein. The data strip 17 is made prior to processing the image areas 15.
In the patented process, silver-halide emulsion is exposed to a non-saturating level of actinic radiation to activate silver halide. The activated emulsion is then photographically developed to a gray color of an optical density of 0.05—2.0 to red light, forming an absorptive underlayer. There is no fixing after this first development step. The surface of the emulsion strip is then fogged by a fogging agent such as borohydride to produce silver precipitating nuclei from the part of the unexposed and undeveloped silver-halide emulsion. The strip is then contacted with a monobath containing a silver-halide solvent and a silver reducing agent to complex, transfer and reduce the remaining unexposed and undeveloped silver to reflective non-filamentary silver at the nuclei sites on the surface. The reflective layer contains from 20% to 50% silver particles of which 1% to 50% may be filamentary silver formed in the initial development step. Beneath the reflective layer is an absorptive underlayer.
The reflective surface layer is characterized by non-filamentary particles 28 overlying a concentration of filamentary particles which form the absorptive underlayer. Separating the data strip from the image area is an unprocessed silver-halide buffer area 30 which would remain generally clear since it is neither exposed nor developed. The buffer area 30 is not necessary, but is desirable because chemical processing of data strip 17 differs from the processing of image area 15. The buffer area 30 may be fixed to remove silver halide so that the area will remain clear. This is optional. Both processes may occur by spraying of chemicals onto the surface of the film, with a mask covering buffer area 30. Such spray processing is well known in photolithography. However, in the present case it may be
necessary to proceed in two steps. In the first step, conventional photographic processing of image area 26 takes place. Subsequently, the image area, together with the buffer area 30 is masked to allow separate processing of the data strip 28. After processing is complete, a transparent layer 32 is applied to the emulsion, forming a protective layer. Layer 32 may be any of the well known protective coatings, including a layer of clear gelatin. The remainder of the film, apart from the data strip 17, need not have fine grain size. Data strip 17 can also be added to the photographic film in the form of an adhesive tape which is bonded to the photographic film either before or after the film is developed.
Fig. 4 is similar to Fig. 3 except that substrate 34 is coated only with silver-halide emulsion to the right of line 36. The image area 15 is exposed, developed and fixed. A protective coating 38 may then be applied. A preformed strip 40 of laser recording material may then be disposed on the substrate. This may be a strip of Drexon material. Drexon is a trademark of Drexler Technology Corporation for reflective silver based laser recording material, such as that described in the aforementioned U.S. patent 4,312,938. Such a preformed strip of laser recording material would have its own thin substrate 39 carrying the emulsion layer. Alternatively, the recording material could be any of the other direct-read-after-write laser recording materials, for example such as that described in U.S. patent 4,230,939 issued to De Bont, et aL where the patent teaches a thin metallic recording layer of reflective metal such as Bi, Te, Ind, Sn, Cu, Al, Pt, Au, Rh, As, Sb, Ge, Se, Ga. Materials which are preferred are those having high reflectivity and low melting point, particularly Cd, Sn, Tl, Ind, Bi and amalgams. These materials may be deposited directly on substrate 34, as by sputtering, or may be premanufactured on a very thin substrate and adhered to the substrate by means of a subbing layer. After adhering the DRAW material to the substrate, a transparent protective coating 44 is applied. This coating material may be the same as protective material 38.
With reference to Fig. 5, substrate 52 has a notch or groove 54 which allows placement of a DRAW material 56 therein. This DRAW material may be processed in situ from silver-halide material previously existing in the groove, as in the case of Fig. 3, or preexisting DRAW material which is placed in the groove, as with the preexisting DRAW material of Fig. 4. In either ease, the photographic image area 15 is exposed and
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developed in the usual way, while an unexposed and undeveloped area 58 protects data strip 56. Since emulsion area 58 is unexposed and undeveloped, it remains clear and forms a protective layer over the data strip.
In the embodiment of Fig. 6, no groove exists in substrate 60. Rather, a photographic image area 15 is exposed and developed in the usual way, with the remainder of the substrate being covered with emulsion which is masked and protected from exposure and development, forming a protected region 62. On top of the protected region 62 a strip of DRAW material 64 is positioned. This DRAW material may be formed in situ by application of a silver-halide emulsion strip which is then processed, as data strip 17 in Fig. 3 is processed, or may be a preformed strip which is applied as in Fig. 4. The strip is then covered with a protective coating 66.
With reference to Fig. 7, a substrate 70 is shown which carries a photographic image in a substrate portion not shown. This image may be above the substrate surface or within a groove of the substrate, as previously mentioned. The substrate carries a secondary substrate 72 which is a thin flexible material, only a few mils thick carrying a DRAW material 74. The secondary substrate 72 is adhered to the primary substrate 70 by means of an adhesive or sticky substance, similar to dry adhesives found on tape. The DRAW material may be any of the materials previously discussed, such as DREXON material, except that the secondary substrate 72 is substituted for the substrate previously mentioned. A protective coating 76 is applied over the DRAW material. Using this embodiment, photographs of the prior art may be converted to the optical data and image medium of the present invention. In this situation, not shown in the drawing of Fig. 7, a portion of an image area is converted to a non-image area by application of the sticky DRAW material. The DRAW material rests above developed silver- halide emulsion, resembling Fig. 6, except that the emulsion is completely exposed and developed in the region underlying the secondary substrate. In all of these embodiments, a strip of DRAW material is positioned adjacent one or more photographic images for providing archival data storage of a similar quality for data as for the photo image. Remarks in the form of alphanumerics or voice may be recorded adjacent to the photographic image. By this means these two forms of communication will not be separated. This arrangement is of particular value to add analytical information to X-rays used for medical purposes, or for non-destructive testing
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or to add to photomicrographies of biological objects or metallurgical structures.
Of course, while the photo images may be read by conventional means, low-powered laser or a photodetector array apparatus must be used to read the data strip. A laser apparatus is illustrated in Fig. 8, which illustrates the side view of the lengthwise dimension of the medium of Fig. 1 consisting of a data strip in combination with photo images. The data strip portion 41 of the medium is usually received in a movable holder 42 whieh brings the strip into the trajectory of a laser beam. A laser light source 43, preferably a pulsed semiconductor laser of infrared wavelength emits a beam 45 which passes through coHimating and focusing optics 47. The beam is sampled by a beam splitter 49 whieh transmits a portion of the beam through a focusing lens 51 to a photodetector 53. The detector 53 confirms laser writing and is not essential. The beam is then directed to a first servo controlled mirror 55 which is mounted for rotation along axis 57 in the direction indicated by arrows B. The purpose of the mirror 55 is to find the lateral edges of the data strip in a coarse mode of operation and then in a fine mode of operation identify data paths which exist predetermined distances from the edges. From mirror 55, the beam is directed toward a mirror 61. This mirror is mounted for rotation at pivot 63. The purpose of mirror 55 is for fine control of motion of the beam along the length of the data strip. Coarse control of the lengthwise portion of the data strip relative to the beam is achieved by motion of the movable holder 42. The position of the holder may be established by a linear motor adjusted by a closed loop position servo system of the type used in magnetic disk drives. Reference position in¬ formation may be prerecorded on the card so that position error signals may be generated and used as feedback in motor control. Upon reading one data path, the mirror 55 is slightly rotated. The motor moves holder 42 lengthwise so that the path can be read again, and so on. As light is scattered and reflected from pits in the DRAW material, the reflectivity of the beam changes relative to surrounding material where no pits exist. The beam should deliver sufficient laser energy to the surface of the recording material to create pits in the data writing mode, but should not cause disruption of the surface so as to cause difficulty in the data reading mode. The wavelength of the laser should be compatible with the recording material to achieve this purpose. In the read mode, power is approximately 5% to 10% of the recording or writing power.
Differences in reflectivity between a pit and surrounding material are detected by light detector 65 which may be a photodiode. Light is focused onto detector 65 by beam splitter 67 and focusing lens 69. Servo motors, not shown, control the positions of the mirrors and drive the mirrors in accord with instructions received from control circuits, as well as from feedback devices. The detector 65 produces eleetrieal signals corresponding to pits. Other optics, not shown, could be used to observe the photo images, while data is being read or written on the data strip.
A photodetector array such as a CCD could also be used. It could be either a linear array or area array. The number of detector elements per track would be approximately three elements to create a reading redundancy. The surface would be illuminated with low-cost light-emitting diodes generating power primarily in the near infra-red to match the sensitivity spectrum of the photodetector array.
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1. An optical data and image medium comprising, a photographic film substrate having a major surface with boundary regions defining image and non-image areas, a direct-read-after-write optical data storage lamella disposed on the substrate proximate to said boundary regions in non-image areas, a coating of photosensitive silver-halide photographic emulsion disposed over said major surface, said silver-halide emulsion being photo¬ graphically exposed and developed in image areas.
2. The medium of Claim 1 wherein said direct-read-after-write lamella comprises reflective strips of silver particles in a gelatin matrix.
3. The medium of Claim 1 wherein said substrate major surface defines a groove having dimensions for receiving said direct-read-after-write optical data storage lamella, the lamella having an upper surface co-planar with said major surface.
4. The medium of Claim 1 wherein said direct-read-after-write lameEa and said emulsion coating are both atop said major surface, said major surface being planar.
5. The medium of Claim 1 wherein said direct-read-after-write lamella and said emulsion coating are both covered by a protective coating.
6. The medium of Claim 4 wherein said emulsion coating covers first portions of said major surface of the substrate, at least in said image areas, and said direct-read-after write lamella covers second portions of said major surfaces of the substrate.
7. The medium of Claim 4 wherein said emulsion coating covers both image and non-image areas of the substrate and said direct-read-after write lamella is disposed over the emulsion in non-image areas.
8. The medium of Claim 7 wherein said lamella is adhered to the emulsion coating by a dry adhesive.
9. An optical data and image medium comprising, a photographic film record bearing at least one image, a strip of direct-read-after-write laser recording material adhered to said record in proximity to said image.
10. An optical data and image medium comprising, a photographic film having a major surface, said surface having first portions of high reflectivity silver particles in a gelatin matrix forming a laser recording material and second portions of low reflectivity silver particles in the same gelatin matrix forming photographic image patterns.
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