Patent Grant
8942071
This application is based on U.S. Patent Provisional Application entitled “Color Storage System and Method” having Ser. No. 61/462,582 and filing date: Feb. 4, 2011, by Inventors: Lucinda Grace Price, Joseph Auciello, Charles Price and Stanley Jacobson.
Areal density represents the amount of information bits on a surface. In Hard Disk Drives (HDDs), areal density is limited by the superparamagnetic limit (the number of information bits that may fit on a given surface, wherein the bits are separated from each other enough not to affect or be effected by the neighboring magnetic bits). High temperatures may adversely affect the superparamagnetic limit and the HDD thus may fail. HDDs may also fail if subjected to physical impact, radiation, electromagnetic fields, abrasive surfaces, or external magnetic forces. Solid State Devices (SSD) may also fail for many reasons, such as being subjected to radiation.
Most central processing units are labeled in terms of their clock rate (the rate at which the processor executes instructions). The current highest rate is about 6 or 7 GHz or 6-7 gigacycles per second. The clock cycle toggles between a logical 0 state and a logical 1 state.
Color Mits, an Alternative to Bits
Current computer architecture is based on single bit (i.e., contraction of ‘binary digit’), on/off technology having 2 states for a single bit. The 2-state bits create computer code by grouping these single bits together into bytes. A byte is usually 8 bits. In an 8 bit byte there are 28 or 256 possible combinations of bits in the 8 bit line.
A colored pixel is created from a 24-bit RGB number, thus a pixel can represent 24 bits of data. However, in a 24 bit byte there are 224 or 16.78 million possible combinations in the 24 bits.
In an embodiment, there is a plurality of color mits on a substrate. The color-based system includes color mits. Each mit (or multi-state digit) has over 16 million state possibilities.
What Color Mits Represent
In an embodiment, colors and colored patterns are used as computer code to symbolize letters, numbers and/or complete words, sentences, phrases, works of art, a DNA string (of a particular species), a computer program/routine (of a particular computer language), the Periodic Table (or other scientific formulas/tables), the Bible (of a particular language), or true color.
Color mits may also symbolize an encryption method, a decryption method, an algorithm, a bytecode, a java applet, HTML code, or graphics code, for example. At least one of the color mits 150 may represent computer-readable instructions using data other than pixel-image data.
In an embodiment, the color mit may be an indexed color mit. A first and second color mit may be read by a reader or scanner. The second color mit represents index data, indicating what type of information the first color mit is. The first color mit represents information data (e.g., an English word) and the second color mit represents that the first color mit contains a particular type of information data, for example, the second color mit may be a key, formula, indicator, pointer, or index (e.g., English Language).
Writing the Color Mits
In an embodiment, a color mit writer or color transfer device may include a light source (laser) to record a color wave length frequency on the surface of or in the base material. The writer may erase a color mit and rewrite a different color mit in the same space on the base material. The writer or printer may be a color ink jet printer, a laser color jet printer, a laser engraver, or a color laser etcher.
In an embodiment, the color laser etcher, as described on www.thermark.com, may form each color mit, which may be chemically resistant to solvents, acids and bases, may withstand prolonged UV, radiation, and moisture exposure, abrasion resistant, and may withstand temperatures above 1800° F. or 980° C. To put this in perspective, temperatures above about 50° C. may cause an HDD failure.
In an embodiment, the color mits may be re-writable. The writer may write over the color mit to change the color of the color mit to a predetermined color. The color change uses a difference in the color information between the predetermined color and the color mit including changes in hue, saturation and intensity according to the predetermined color.
Reading the Color Mits
The reader may include a light source to illuminate the surface of the base material to read the color mit. The reader may use a color sensor/detector to receive or read the plurality of color mits reflected or refracted. The reader determines color information including hue, saturation, and intensity of the color mit. The reader detects visible or invisible colors.
Calibration
The color mit values of the test sections are checked against the color mit values in the color calibration table to determine accuracy. If the test color mit values are determined to vary from the calibrated values, the drivers for the writer and reader are adjusted to correct the variance.
Color Light Transmission
In an embodiment, color is referred to herein as different wavelengths of light and/or reflective properties of materials that may or may not be visible to the human eye.
A light bus may be used as a centralized bus for transmitting light and color based signals to and from components, such as a CPU and I/O units. The light bus allows transmission of color symbolized data in the form of light frequencies between components to occur at or near the speed of light without electrical limitations, thereby increasing processing speed. The color or color light wavesource including a laser and/or a LED can be capable of manipulating light, wherein manipulating the light includes bending light through a prism, halving a frequency of the light by passing through crystal, combining two or more colors to give a different color, or subtracting a color sensor from a light beam by passing it through a filter or multilayer coating. The manipulation of light includes processing functions as current processors, wherein functions include move, add, subtract, multiply, divide and basic logical, and input/output operations of a system.
Layered Color Storage
In an embodiment, there may be hybrid color mits, optical ridges, and/or magnetic bits in the same base material or substrate. In a hybrid system, a layer of color mits are used together with another layer of color mits, magnetic bits, or optical ridges. There are at least two layers of optical, magnetic, and/or color storage. One of the layers, for example, the index layer may be magnetic, optical or color. This index layer (or a mit on this layer) indicates information regarding another bit (or mit) in the same layer or another layer. For example, the information may be a particular type of information, such as language, color, works of art, and even computer programs. So the same color mit might mean different things depending on what its corresponding index indicates.
Color Encryption
In an embodiment, there may be different laser colors for an optical layer encryption method. Just like the second color mit represents index data, indicating what type of information the first color mit is, in an example, the information associated with the color mit may indicate which laser color to use. In the instance of using optical layer(s), the laser beam uses wavelength hopping with an optical base material. The laser uses an index color, such as a red, blue, UV, or any other color laser, to read an index ridge, for instance, from the substrate. That index ridge indicates what the second laser color is to be, for instance, or some other data, such as a number or a letter. The second laser color, which may also be another index laser color, reads the substrate at the same or another indicated ridge or valley, which could indicate yet another color laser to use or yet some other data. Each color has a different wavelength and may then read each ridge and valley of optical storage differently.
In an embodiment, there may be different laser colors for a colored layers encryption method. In the instance where the information may indicate which laser color to use on the color layer(s), the laser beam uses color wavelength hopping with a color mit base material. The laser uses an index color, such as a red, blue, UV, or any other color laser, to read a color mit from the substrate. That indexed color mit indicates what the second laser color is to be, for instance, or some other data, such as a number or a letter. The second laser color, which may also be another index laser color, reads the substrate at the same or another indicated color mit, which could indicate yet another color laser to use or yet some other data. There is at least one layer of color storage (i.e., color mits), each of the color mits being read by a colored laser having a color selected as indicated by an indexed color mit.
An example of color laser on color mits encryption method is described as follows. In an example, if the indexed color mit indicates to use a red color laser on the next color mit in the process, and the next color mit is yellow, the red color laser beam strikes the yellow and returns orange to the scanner, the orange meaning a certain applet, for instance. If the red color laser beam strikes white, and returns pink to the scanner, the pink indicates a different routine, for instance. However, if the previously read indexed color mit indicates to use a blue color laser on the next color mit in the process, and the next color mit is yellow, the blue color laser beam strikes the yellow and returns green to the scanner, the green indicating yet a different computer program.
Each user may use the same color mit substrate and interpret it 16 million different ways for each color mit on the substrate. The same substrate may be given to different users, each user has their own program and database tables that writes to and/or interprets the color mits on the substrate, based on the different possible laser colors. In this embodiment, each user may create its own codebook, personal and customized, a unique key to understanding the storage data.
The encryption method may include one or more color mits positioned within a color mit sequence. The time it takes for a brute-force attack of the encryption depends on the number of permutations. For standard 8-bit encryption, there are 2^8 permutations and for a device checking 2^56 permutations per second, the time it takes to decrypt is less than a second. For a standard 128 bit key, there are 2^128 permutations which takes about 149 trillion years to decrypt. In color storage, for 8-mit color encryption, there are 16.8 million^8 permutations, (6.3×10^57 permutations) which would take 2.79 Decillion years (2.79×10^33 years) to decrypt using brute force permutations.
It should be noted that for the descriptions that follow, for example, in terms of color storage and transmission systems and methods, they are described for illustrative purposes and the underlying system may apply to all types of systems and devices used for data storage, retrieval and processing. Computers, a web appliance, a network router, switch or bridge, or any machine capable of executing a set of instructions (sequential or otherwise) that specify actions to be taken by that system or component, cell phones, smart phones, tablet personal computers, set-top boxes (STB), a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), and other portable devices with touch screens are within the scope of the descriptions. The system may operate in a synchronized series in a system, such as a network system. In this description, the terms computer, communication device, storage medium, hard drive or computer disk shall mean any system, component or I/O device whether it could be classified as an electronic device, digital device or other form of integrated circuit based system or device.
The color-based system 100 includes color mits 150 formed on a base material 160. Each mit (or multi-state digit) has over 16 million state possibilities. In a standard color mit model, three primary colors (such as, RGB or cyan, magenta, and yellow) and black and white may be mixed to make the 16.78 million possible combinations. The term “color mit” may include a colored pixel or dot, as described in more detail herein. In an embodiment, the color combinations create 16.78 million states for each single color mit.
In an embodiment, the color storage and transmission system and method 100 may include a processor 110 to process data, computer instructions and a database 120 to store and retrieve color mits 150, and associated data records, computer programs and computer instructions read from and written upon a base material 160. The processor 110 may include pre-written programs and functions. Increase in data storage capacity on a substrate may increase processing speed as more data can be read in the same processing cycle in an embodiment of the present invention.
A light bus 115 may be used as a centralized bus for transmitting light and color based signals to and from components, such as a CPU and I/O units, as described in more detail herein. The processor 110 may include color-based I/O units to input data into a color-based computer system and color-based devices to display or print data into a color-based computer system.
The color storage and transmission system and method 100 configured with the light bus 115 allows transmission of color symbolized data in the form of light frequencies between components to occur at or near the speed of light without electrical limitations, thereby increasing processing speed.
A database 120 is included which has an indexed table of color mits available and assigns symbols, functions or complete programs to a single color mit, as described in more detail herein. The database 120 uses the assigned data written and read in a read-write storage and retrieval process in an embodiment of the present invention. The indexed assigned data in the database is further processed in the CPU and I/O units in an embodiment of the present invention. The database 120 uses the base material 160 upon which to write data using writer 140.
The system 100 may include a mapping driver 170. The mapping driver 170 can control and log the mapping of the color mit based data. The mapping driver 170 may be used to determine the mapped location of the requested data on the base material 160 and direct a reader 180 to that location.
The writer 140 may include a color transfer device to record a plurality of color mits on the base material 160. The color transfer device may include a printing device to deposit a color on the surface of the base material 160. The color transfer device may include a light source to record a color wave length frequency on the surface of or in the base material 160. The writer 140 may erase a color mit and rewrite a different color mit in the same space on the base material 160 in one embodiment of the present invention.
At least one of the color mits 150 represents computer-readable instructions using data other than pixel-image data, as described in more detail herein.
The color storage and transmission system and method 100 can be a combination of 16.78 million mit color-based components and 2 bit on/off technology components to form a hybrid color-based computer system, as described in more detail herein.
In an embodiment, the base material 160 includes a first color mit and a second color mit. The first color mit represents pixel-image data and the second color mit represents that the first color mit is a part of an image. The second color mit represents index data, indicating what type of information the first color mit is. The first color mit represents information data and the second color mit represents that the first color mit contains a particular type of information data, the second color mit being a key, formula, indicator, pointer, or index.
The plurality of color mits 150 on the base material 160 represents image-pixel data and characters, in an embodiment. At least one of the color mits 150 of
The plurality of color mits 150 on the base material 160 may be at least 1200 dpi, for instance. The writer 140 may write a plurality of colors to the base material 160 using, for example, laser color etching with a density of at least 1200 dpi, for instance. The reader 180 may read the color mits at least 1200 dpi, for instance. A density of 1200 dpi produces approximately 1.44 Megamits per square inch, each of those mits having at least 16.78 million possible instructions or data in an embodiment of the present invention. Although this embodiment discusses 1200 dpi, any density, higher or lower is within the scope of the embodiments.
The reader 180 may include a light source to illuminate the surface of the base material 160 to read the color mit. The reader 180 may use a color sensor/detector to receive or read the plurality of color mits 150 reflected or refracted. The reader 180 may use the bus 115 to connect to the database 120.
The system and method 100 may also include image data, which optimizes the amount of data that may be stored on the base material, thereby increasing the amount of data that can be stored in the same physical area. The reduced number of bits also reduces the number of processing cycles to transmit the same amount of data which can now occur at or near the speed of light thereby increasing the computer processing speed in an embodiment of the present invention. In particular, the computer processes 1 color mit, instead of processing a million bits, for example.
The input interface 222 processes through the database 120 to initially convert data being inputted into a color mit format. The inputted data is transmitted through the light bus 115 which includes one or more fiber optic strands 235 or other optical transmitting material. The light bus 115 connects to the processor 110 for processing and routing. The color storage and transmission system and method 100 of
The processor 110 passes computer readable instructions from the database 120 through the bus 115 to a writer driver 240 to record the inputted data in a color mit format. The processor 110 can be structured to use light transmission circuits within the processor architecture to increase processing speeds. The transmission of signals in the processor 110 may use a colored light such as that produced by a LED 274.
The processor 110 passes computer readable instructions from the database 120 through the light bus 115 to the writer driver 240 to record the inputted data in a color mit format. The writer driver 240 and writer 140 can be attached to an arm 260 positioned above the base material 160. The writer 140 uses the color transfer device 242 which may be a printer 244. The printer 244 may be a color ink jet printer, a laser color jet printer, a laser engraver, or a color laser etcher, for example. The printer 244 may imprint, for example, the base material 160 with one or more colors of ink or other imprinting medium. The system may use electron beam lithography or sputtering to deposit material on the substrate or any known method of depositing color on a substrate.
The processor 110 may embed the database 120 into the processor chip wherein the processor 110 performs read and write functions using the database 120 to convert color mits into data, or vice versa. The database 120 incorporates tables of prewritten database tables and records new color mit data. The database 120 includes computer readable instructions referenced and indexed by color mits, as shown in an embodiment herein.
The location on the base material 160 where a color mit 290 is recorded is transmitted from the writer 140 to the writer driver 240. The writer driver 240 processes the location information and data identification information and records the information in the database 120.
The writer driver 240 may use the color information to communicate to the writer 140 to write over the color mit to change the color of the color mit to a predetermined color. The color change uses a difference in the color information between the predetermined color and the color mit including changes in hue, saturation and intensity according to the predetermined color, as described in more detail herein.
The writer 140 may erase a color mit and rewrite a different color mit in the same space on the base material 160. The writer 140 may use one or more light sources 272 (such as a laser 252) to erase (such as ablate) an existing color or overprint, using the color “white”, previously an imprinted color mit 290 onto the location of the base material 160.
When the processor 110 instructs the writer 140 to rewrite over a particular location on the base material 160 the writer driver 240 may sequence the operation. The writer driver 240 may first initiate instructions to the laser 252 to erase any existing color and follow with an instruction for the printer 244 to imprint the new color mit 290 in an embodiment of the present invention.
The processor 110 may receive instructions from the input interface 222 to retrieve and display recorded particular data. The processor 110 transmits computer readable instructions from the database 120 through the light bus 115 to the reader driver 270. The reader driver 270 initiates operations of the reader 180, which may be located on the arm 260. The reader driver 270 directs the reader 180 to the mapped location of the particular data. The reader 180 may use the light source 272, such as a LED 274. The LED 274 projects light onto the base material 160. The projected light illuminates the color mit 290 for the reader to read the color of the color mit.
A color sensor 280 may include a color scanner 282 to analyze the reflected color to determine the hue, saturation, intensity and color light wave frequency of the color mit 290. The scanner may have the same size as the writing surface of the base material, in an embodiment, so that one scan of the entire surface is used to read each of the color mits. In other embodiments, the scanner may move to scan the plurality of color mits on the writing surface of the base material. The base material may spin, as in a HDD, or may be stationary, for instance.
The reader 180 may include instructions to transmit the hue, saturation, intensity and color light wave frequency of the color mit 290 to the writer driver 240 to allow determination of the amount of hue, saturation, intensity to be added to a color mit to adjust the existing color mit to a predetermined new color. The reader driver 270 converts the scanned information of the reflected color or color light wave frequency using a color mit model code to identify each color. The color or color light wavesource 272 including a laser 252 and a LED 274 can be capable of manipulating light, wherein manipulating the light includes bending light through a prism, halving a frequency of the light by passing through crystal, combining two or more colors to give a different color, or subtracting a color sensor 280 from a light beam by passing it through a filter or multilayer coating in an embodiment of the present invention.
The manipulation of light includes processing functions as current processors, wherein functions include move, add, subtract, multiply, divide and basic logical, and input/output operations of a system. The reader 180 transmits the retrieved color mit 290 code to the database 120. The database 120 may then be searched for the matching color, and the database information may then be transmitted through the bus 115 to the processor 110. The processor 110 then transmits computer readable instructions through the bus 115 to an output interface 224 to the I/O units 220. The retrieved information symbolized by the color mit 290 may then be printed, displayed or used to operate a piece of machinery such as a CNC lathe in an embodiment of the present invention.
The color storage and transmission system and method 100 of
The computer system configured completely with color-based components or a mix of color-based and magnetic bit based components can perform as a standalone personal computer (PC), a tablet PC, a set-top box (STB), a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), a cellular telephone, a web appliance, a network router, switch or bridge, or any machine capable of executing a set of instructions (sequential or otherwise) that specify actions to be taken by that system or component. The computer system configured completely with color-based components or a mix of color-based and magnetic bit based components can operate in a synchronized series of system such as a network system in an embodiment of the present invention.
The visible color 310, color values 320 and non-visible color values 330 may provide alternate ways to store or transmit information by using the particular values associated with the particular system.
The system may employ visible color 310 as a color mit model 300. Visible color 310 may include color values 320 that increase the distinguishing values of a color. The color values 320 may include, for example, hue 322, saturation 324, intensity 326 and/or transparency 328. In another embodiment, the color values 320 may include red, green and blue values (RGB). There are over 13 million possibilities for the hue, saturation and (luminosity) intensity scale per color mit. In the RGB scale, there are 16.78 million possibilities per color mit. In an example, red can be defined as 255, 0, 0 RGB or 0, 240, 1230 HSL.
The system may also utilize non-visible color values 330 as the color mit model 300 of an embodiment of the present invention. The wavelengths of the visual range are 380 to 740 nm. Wavelengths (and colors) outside the visual range are within the scope of embodiments described herein, such as beyond infrared and ultraviolet. The color mit model 300 may include non-visible color values 330 as the color mit model 300 in an embodiment of the present invention. The color mit model 300 non-visible color values 330 include radio waves 340 and other electromagnetic waves 342. The color mit model 300 may be based on ultraviolet light 360, infrared light 352, x-rays 354, gamma rays 356 and light controlled wavelengths 358. The color mit model 300 non-visible color values 330 may be atomic structure 360, molecular geometry 362 and structural formulas 370.
Alternate ways to store or transmit information may include DNA coding 370, chemical formulas 380, the periodic table of elements 382 and wave modulations 390. The color mit model 300 may use the color value of each element of the Periodic Table of Elements and each chemical compound to assign a different computer-readable instruction to each, such as characters, computer programs, or neurons to transmit information.
The color storage and transmission system and method 100 may use X-rays 354 to record, for example, a medical X-ray in an embodiment. The system has a large area reader 180. The large area reader 180 of
The capability of the color storage and transmission system and method 100 to adapt its configuration to use a variety of color mit model 300 values increases the amount of storage available using color mit 150 data.
The database uses assigned symbols, functions or complete programs written and read in a read-write storage and retrieval process in an embodiment of the present invention. The database may incorporate tables of prewritten database tables and record new color mit data. The database may include computer readable instructions referenced and indexed by a single color mit symbol in an embodiment of the present invention.
In the instance where new color mit data is recorded, the user may define what a certain color mit represents based on amount and type of usage, for example. In another embodiment, software coupled with the processor acts as artificial intelligence to define what a certain color mit represents based on amount and type of usage, for example. In this embodiment, the artificial intelligence acts to encrypt the color mits.
The database table 400 is used in the conversion (mapping) between the color mit 150 and the instructions. In an embodiment, the binary code may be used in the conversion. The color mit model index 410 provides a database of the elements of the color mit model 300 to assign information to each color mit such as computer-readable instructions. A color mit indexed database and table elements 420 stores the assigned information for use in generating color mit code to write and record data. The color mit 290 of
The color mit model index 410 may include encryption method 450 and decryption method 455. In an embodiment the encryption method 450 may include one or more index color mits positioned at the beginning of a color mit sequence. In another embodiment, the encryption method 450 may include multiple color mits positioned throughout a color mit sequence in a predetermined or random manner. The color mit model index 410 may include information to convert color mit 290 of
As discussed herein color mit data may represent a number of data types. The indexing of color mit data tables in the database 120 assigns color mit data types to fixed indexing positions as part of the processing system 200 of
The processing system 200 of
The process further may determine how much hue, saturation and/or intensity is to be added to have a new predetermined color 640 written in the same color mit 290. The process may instruct the writer 140 to rewrite over the color mit 650 with the predetermined color 640. The processing system 200 of
As shown, the writer 140 may write a white 660 color mit over an existing color mit 290 and then rewrite the new predetermined color 640 over the white 660 color mit 290. In another embodiment, a laser 252 of
In this example, the color mit indexed database and table elements 420 may include a color mit RGB index value 700, the binary code conversion index 470, the hexadecimal code conversion index 466, a text 702 indicating the information text formatted, a symbol 704 indicating the type of text, a language designation 710 indicating which language is used for the text, a single lowercase letter 720 from the designated language alphabet, a single uppercase letter 725 from the designated language alphabet, a whole word 730, a whole phrase 740, a space 750, punctuation marks 760, and a storage substrate mapped location 770, in an embodiment of the present invention.
A pixel 795 may include several, for example 16, sections. The example shows color mit RGB index value 700 assigned to color mit pixel position 780-1 being imprinted in pixel section 1. Likewise the binary code conversion index 470, the language designation 710 and the whole word 730 are being imprinted in their respective corresponding color mit pixel positions 2, 6 and 9. In this example when the reader 180 of
The base material may be fused silica, glass, chemically strengthened glass (such as Gorilla® Glass by Corning®), any set of thin film layers, a semiconductor such as silicon or ceramic, silicon wafer, metal, fabric, such as a piece of paper, plastic or a combination of materials. The base material may include materials having characteristics including not being able to rewritten upon after the writable surface is erased. User applications may include making a permanent, non-rewriteable record of data for archiving purposes. In other embodiments, the base material may be rewritable.
In an embodiment, the color mit may be glass fused with a predetermined color pigment, ink, toner, or colored glass, for instance.
The computer system may include both color mit and binary electronic or magnetic bit components, thereby forming a hybrid computer system. The hybrid computer systems use binary or magnetic disk drives for data storage with the color storage system and method 100 of
The color storage system and method 100 may be a combination of over 16 million mit color-based components and bi-stable on/off technology components to form a hybrid color-based computer system. The computer system may be configured completely with color-based components or a mix of color-based and magnetic bit based components. The 2 bit on/off technology components may include bit-patterned media, where the color mits are formed on each of the magnetic bits in the bit patterned media. The color mits may be formed on color absorbent material and delimited by color-repelling material, in an embodiment.
The hybrid computer systems may use hard disk drives with the color storage and transmission system and method 100 of
In another embodiment, disk 900 may include data ridges 910 of an optical disk and a plurality of color mits 150 of
In another embodiment, within each of the rings are both the magnetic bits and color mits. In another embodiment, within each of the rings are both the ridges of a DVD disk and the color mits. There may be separate layers, where the color mit layer is closer to the index, base material and the DVD ridges layer is on top of the color mit layer, or vice versa. In another embodiment, there may be two or more color mit layers accessed by the reader (or writer) through different laser angles.
The hybrid storage disk 900 uses different components or computer systems where both color mit and non-colored bit systems comprise the overall system. The hybrid storage disk 900 may include use in a multiple media (e.g., magnetic, optical or color) composite component configured to communicate with a large number of non-color bit systems. The dual or tri-operating capacity of the hybrid storage disk 900 may reduce systems machine-readable instruction conversion indices in an embodiment of the present invention.
In another embodiment, laser 252 comprises a beam having a possibility of one of a plurality of colors that utilize frequency (or wavelength) hopping. Each color has a different wavelength and thus reads each ridge and valley of optical storage differently. The laser 252 uses an index color, such as red, to read an index ridge or valley, such as the innermost ridge, from the disk 900 in this embodiment. That index ridge indicates what the second laser color is to be, for instance, or some other data, such as a number or a letter. The second laser color, which may also be another index laser color, reads the disk at the same or another indicated ridge or valley, which could indicate yet another color laser to use or yet some other data. The optical disk 900 may have many layers, each with ridges and valleys.
There are at least two layers of optical, magnetic, and/or color storage. One of the layers, for example, the index layer, indicates which laser color to use on the other color or optical layer or layers. The index layer may be magnetic, optical or color.
In an alternative embodiment, the index layer indicates where on a 3-D cube of colored pixels to direct a colored laser. The color of the laser is indicated by the index layer. The color of the laser is verified by the verification or calibration process described herein.
The magnetic layer may, for example, include a bit-patterned magnetic layer. The magnetic layer 1000 may be used to write and read a laser color index used to customize the use of two or more color lasers to read color mit data on the optical color layer 1010. In yet another embodiment, there is at least one layer of color storage (i.e., color mits), each of the color mits being read by a colored laser having a color selected as indicated by a previously read indexed color mit. In this embodiment, another alternative is to use the laser color selected by an indexed color mit that is read next (or in the future). In this alternative an indexed color mit read next and/or previously (or in the past) indicates how to interpret the other color mits.
In this embodiment, if the previously read index color mit indicates to use a red color laser 1030 on the next color mit in the process, and the next color mit is yellow, the red color laser beam 1060 strikes the yellow and returns orange to the scanner, the orange meaning a certain number, for instance. If the red color laser beam 1060 strikes white, and returns pink to the scanner, the pink indicates a different number, for instance. However, if the previously read index color mit indicates to use a blue color laser 1050 on the next color mit in the process, and the next color mit is yellow, the blue color laser beam strikes the yellow and returns green to the scanner, the green indicating yet a different number.
In an embodiment, several users may use the same substrate and interpret it 16 million different ways for each color mit on the substrate. The same substrate may be given to different users, each user has their own program and database tables that writes to and/or interprets the color mits on the substrate, based on the different possible laser colors. In this embodiment, each user may create its own codebook, personal and customized, a unique key to understanding the storage data.
The base material 160 or substrate materials may include an applied coating or treatment with, for example, machine-readable medium. The machine-readable medium may include materials that allow for imprinting color with the color transfer device 242 of
The data storage capacity provided by use of the color storage and transmission system and method 100 of
In an embodiment, the color mits may be laser engraved onto the base material. In another embodiment, the writer 140 of
The laser marking technology may employ a CYMK color mit model 300 of
The writer 140 of
The writer 140 of
The holographic color mit process may be incorporated into the encryption method 450 of
The writer 140 of
In an embodiment the infrared color mit system may be configured to include a reduced insulating rating to allow the trapped gas to cool over a shorter period of time. The infrared system with shortened thermal holding time may be used for temporary cache memory functions.
The infrared film may record a permanent record of the infrared light frequency and may record in the database 120 of
The base material 160 of
The ultraviolet light 350 of
The excited phosphor color mit emissions may be temporary and fade when the lasers are moved or turned off. In an embodiment, the plasma color mit system may be used for temporary cache memory functions. In another embodiment, the base material 160 of
The base material 160 of
The calibration sequence may include a check, in which the storage areas of the base material 160 of
A verification of the color of the laser from the index bit (or mit), pixel, or layer occurs where the following method checks the color of the laser light: (a) its frequency is measured (e.g., wavelength in nanometers), and (b) the RGB values are converted to HSL values or vice versa, and the color of the laser is independently measured, for example, using a spectrometer or photometer.
The color mit external USB drive 1100 may include a sensor/scanner/reader, and a writer 140. The writer may include a variety of printed color mit systems, for example, a color ink jet printer, a laser color jet printer, a color laser etcher or other means for placing color mits 150 of
The color mit external USB drive 1100 using a RGB color mit model 310 of
The laser 252 of
In another embodiment, the material 1340 applied to the curved concaved tracks 1320 is a photosensitive material. The color mit sections of the curved concaved tracks 1320 are written using the light transport fiber 1300 to transmit a color light wavelength frequency to be absorbed by the photosensitive material 1340. The stored color light wavelength frequency may be erased or neutralized using the light transport fiber 1310 to transmit a light wavelength to, in opposition to the stored frequency, dampen the frequency.
In another embodiment of the curved concaved tracks 1320, the reader 180 of
In a color based system, component groups may include the input devices 1430, such as a keyboard 1432, a mouse 1434, a scanner 282 and a digital camera 1438, working storage 1440 including SD-RAM 1442, DDR-RAM 1444, and RAMBUS 1446, permanent storage 1450 devices for example hard disk 1452, CD-ROM 1454 and other drive types 1456, input/output devices 1460 including a modem, ISDN 1462, a sound card and/or MIDI 1464 and video, TV cards 1466, and output devices 1470, such as a printer 244 and screen-display 1474.
Appropriate translators may transfer information between the conventional on/off and color processing at the interfaces. In a hybrid embodiment, for 24 bit colors, there are 3 bytes or 3 ASCII characters for each color. In another embodiment, each color represents a word, a graphic, a character, a pixel or a computer program.
In embodiments described herein, the value of a bit (or the value of a byte) is expressed in color. Colors may be formed of 24 bits, 30 bits, 36 bits or more, in an embodiment. For 24 bit colors: 8 bits for red, 8 bits for green and 8 bits for blue. There are over 16 million colors with different hue, saturation, and intensity (aka value or lightness).
An alphanumeric input device 1540, such as a keyboard and user interface (UI), may include a mouse to enable the user to create direct input into the computer system 1500. A search request by the user from the keyboard may instruct the reader 180 to read data using the reader driver 270 to initiate the scanner LED 274 to illuminate the color mits and send the search results to a display device 1520 that may send instructions 1515 to, for example, a printer to print the search results. The reader driver 270 may also transmit through the bus system to one or more video display devices such as a liquid crystal display (LCD), light emitting diode (LED) 274, or a cathode ray tube (CRT) to allow the user to see the results of an embodiment of the present invention.
The search results may be transmitted to the CPU/processor 1510 for calculation processes. The CPU/processor 1510 may send instructions 1515 to the writer 140 to add the calculated results to the database 120 of
The software 1570 may also reside, completely or at least partially, within the main memory 1555 and/or within the processor 1510 during execution thereof by the computer system 1500, the main memory 1555 and the processor 1500 also constituting machine-readable medium 1535. The memory units such as static memory 1550 and RAM memory devices 1558, as well as the drive device 1530 and machine-readable medium 1535, may each be comprised of color storage as described herein. The software 1570 may include programming to transmit data through the light bus 115 to a signal generation device 1560, such as a speaker to play music. The software 1570 may further be transmitted or received over a network 1585 utilizing any one of a number of well-known transfer protocols, such as HTTP.
The computer system 1500 may include a network interface device 1580, for example, a modem or network router to allow the color mit component to transmit and receive data to and from a network 1585. Other components 1590 based on the color mit architecture may be connected to the computer system 1500 through a connection to the light bus 115. The connection may include a USB plug or PCI slot. The connection of the color mit computer system 1500 to a network 1585 allows a color mit based system of components to operate with non-colored bit systems or components also connected to the network in an embodiment of the present invention.
In alternative embodiments, the computer system 1500 operates as a standalone device or may be connected (e.g., networked) to other computer systems 1500. In a networked deployment, the computer system 1500 may operate in the capacity of a server or a client computer system 1500 in server-client network environment, or as a peer computer system 1500 in a peer-to-peer (or distributed) network environment. The computer system 1500 may be a personal computer (PC), a tablet PC, a set-top box (STB), a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), a cellular telephone, a web appliance, a network router, switch or bridge, or any computer system 1500 capable of executing a set of instructions (sequential or otherwise) that specify actions to be taken by that computer system 1500. Further, while only a single computer system 1500 is illustrated, the term computer system 1500 shall also be taken to include any collection of machines or components that individually or jointly execute a set (or multiple sets) of instructions to perform any one or more of the methodologies discussed herein.
While the machine-readable medium 1535 is shown in an example embodiment to be a single medium, the term “machine-readable medium” should be taken to include a single medium or multiple media (e.g., a centralized or distributed database, and/or associated caches and servers) that store the one or more sets of instructions. The term “machine-readable medium” shall also be taken to include any medium that is capable of storing, encoding or carrying a set of instructions for execution by the machine and that cause the machine to perform any one or more of the methodologies of the present invention, or that is capable of storing, encoding or carrying data structures utilized by or associated with such a set of instructions. The term “machine-readable medium” shall accordingly be taken to include, but not be limited to, solid-state memories, color media, optical media, and magnetic media.
Data security in the color storage and transmission system and method 100 of
Inputted data 1640 may be transmitted from any input devices 1330. In an embodiment, at least one color mit of the plurality of color mits is encrypted. The encrypted color mit may be decrypted with a key or passcode or act as an encryption indicator. The inputted data at block 1640 processes through the writer driver 240 which searches the indexed database table elements 420 for placement positions and to check whether an encryption method 450 is included in the data. In this example, the data requests the encryption method 450, where an encryption key, in this example, is intensity value equal to 28 at block 1650. The encryption key color value is used by the writer driver 240 to instruct the writer 140 to randomize the placement of the inputted data at block 1640. The data is written into randomized encrypted mapped locations at block 1660 in the three pixels as shown on
This is only one example embodiment of color mit encryption. Any application using color mit storage and the methods described herein, combined with hashing, symmetric cryptography and/or asymmetric cryptography for encryption is within the scope of the embodiments of this disclosure.
The instructions are passed through to the reader driver 270 which checks the plurality of color mits 550 and returns a count of color mits with intensity value equal to 28 to be 3, at block 1720. Having verified the decryption method 455 conditions, the reader driver 270 interprets the data read by the instructions and the results are sent to the user. The results of the reader driver 270 are shown in the proper decrypted color mit data mapped locations, at block 1730 and in Table No. 1 below.
The color mit encryption process may provide an automated system to increase user data security and encryption methods and decryption methods.
The Abstract of the Disclosure is provided to comply with 37 C.F.R. Section 1.72(b). It is submitted with the understanding that it may not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. In addition, in the foregoing Detailed Description, it may be seen that various features are grouped together in a single embodiment for the purpose of streamlining the disclosure. This method of disclosure is not to be interpreted as reflecting an intention that the claimed embodiments require more features than are expressly recited in each claim. Rather, as the following claims reflect, inventive subject matter lies in less than all features of a single disclosed embodiment. Thus the following claims are hereby incorporated into the Detailed Description, with each claim standing on its own as a separate embodiment.
The foregoing has described the principles, embodiments and modes of operation of the present invention. However, the invention should not be construed as being limited to the particular embodiments discussed. The above described embodiments should be regarded as illustrative rather than restrictive, and it should be appreciated that variations may be made in those embodiments by those skilled in the art without departing from the scope of the present invention as defined by the following claims.
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