IMAGE DATABASE INCORPORATED LOW RESOLUTION INDEX IMAGE DATA

摘要

A mechanism for controlling the manner in which digitized image data files are s tored on a digital data storage medium, such as a compact disc, in an opto-electronic image digitizing system in which a plurality of images that have been captured on an image storage medium, such as 35 mm film, are converted into a digital image rep resentation and stored as respective high resolution image-representative data files. For each high resolution image-repre sentative data file, an associated low resolution digitized image is stored within a low resolution index image data file. Selecte d ones or all of the low resolution image-representative data files within the index file may be read out and displayed as corresponding low resolution portions of a montage image to facilitate rapid viewing of the images.