Image file container
CA 2473071 C · Owner: Ternasky, Joseph D. · Inventors: Crow, William M.; Dunbar, Geoffrey T.; Ternasky, Joseph D.
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An image container file has at least first and second multimedia streams (MSs). The first MS includes first image data representing an image. The second MS includes arbitrary data which can for example, correspond to: a different representation of the same image; annotations to the first image data; second image data that together with the first image data form a new image with greater dynamic range resolution, field of view or other attributes that can be derived from processing two or more independent images; or an executable file related to the first MS. The image container file can also include an extensible metadata to hold information describing one or more multimedia streams of the …
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- Filed July 6, 2004 and granted September 3, 2013. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 6, 2024.
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