Colorspace Data Encoding with UV/IR Layers and Embedded ECC
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current technologies face challenges in efficiently encoding and decoding data on physical mediums and transmission lines, particularly in enhancing data storage capacity, detectability, and security using conventional colorspaces and error-correcting codes.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of colorspace conversion and encoding techniques utilizing ultraviolet, infrared, and luminance channels, along with error-correcting codes like Hamming codes, to increase data capacity and security on physical mediums and transmission lines, using multiple color-channels and layers for enhanced detectability and security.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If conventional colorspaces are used for data encoding, then the encoding process is simple, but the data storage capacity is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extends the traditional RGB colorspace (3 channels) to include ultraviolet, infrared, and luminance channels, creating a 7-channel colorspace. This dimensional expansion allows encoding more data bits per pixel location, directly increasing data storage capacity while managing complexity through systematic colorspace conversion processes
2Reliability
If error-correcting codes are implemented, then data reliability is improved, but the encoding and decoding complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies error-correcting codes during the initial encoding phase, embedding redundancy into the data structure before transmission or storage. This preliminary action ensures that errors can be detected and corrected during decoding without requiring complex real-time error handling mechanisms
Solution Approach 2:
The patent incorporates error correction capability as a buffer against potential transmission or storage errors. By pre-configuring the encoding scheme with error correction codes, the system creates a protective layer that cushions against data corruption without adding complex error handling during operation
3Quantity of substance
If multiple color-channels are used for encoding, then data capacity increases, but the detectability of encoded data decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent utilizes the human visual system's insensitivity to ultraviolet, infrared, and luminance variations to encode data in these channels. The encoded data appears as normal images to human observers, maintaining visual appeal while carrying additional information that can be detected and decoded by appropriate scanning devices
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This approach significantly enhances data storage capacity, detectability, and security on physical mediums and transmission lines by leveraging colorspace conversions and error-correcting codes, ensuring robust data transmission and storage.
Implementation Method 1
at least one of an ultraviolet channel and an infrared channel represented and detectable by a pattern of ink on the sheet of paper
Implementation Method 2
at least one of an ultraviolet channel and an infrared channel represented and detectable by a pattern of ink on the sheet of paper
Implementation Method 3
a luminance channel, distinct from the four color-channels, wherein the three additional channels include: an ultraviolet channel, an infrared channel, and a luminance channel
Data Source
AI summary
Techniques to improve storage, transmission and security of data are included. One or more methods, apparatuses, and articles of manufacture employ one or more color-channels, ultraviolet layers, infrared layers, and/or luminance layers to encode data on or along a physical medium, where the encoding includes utilizing one or more of those layers to encode an error-correcting code (ECC), such as a Hamming code with the data.