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Oracle® Multimedia Reference
11g Release 2 (11.2)

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What's New in Oracle Multimedia?

This document summarizes new features, enhancements, APIs, and Oracle Database support introduced with Oracle Multimedia in the current release. It also describes a feature that is no longer being enhanced, beginning with the current release.

New Features for Release 11.2

Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) added the following new features, which are described in this manual.

See Also:

Oracle Multimedia User's Guide for the complete list of new features for Oracle Multimedia

Oracle Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide for information about new DICOM enhancements

New Constructor Functions

Oracle Multimedia now provides new constructor functions for BLOBs and other sources for these object types:

As a result, the following init( ) methods were not enhanced in Oracle Database 11g, Release 2 (11.2):

Note:

These init( ) methods are still available in Release 11.2, but Oracle recommends taking these actions:

See Appendix H for more information about these methods.

Image Watermarking

Oracle Multimedia now supports adding watermarks that contain images or text to source images, thus preventing the misuse of copyrighted or trademarked images. See Section D.6 for more information about this feature.

New Image Processing Operators

Oracle Multimedia now provides these new image processing operators:

CMYK Content Format

Oracle Multimedia now supports the CMYK content format. See Section D.5 for more information about this feature.

Status of ORDImage Support for DICOM in Release 11.2

Beginning with Oracle Database 11g, Release 2 (11.2), the DICOM support in ORDImage objects that was introduced in Oracle Database 10g, Release 2 (10.2) was not enhanced. The DICOM support in ORDImage objects is still available in Release 11.2, but Oracle recommends taking the following actions for medical imaging applications.

See Section J.3 for more information about the status of this feature and its enhancements.

See Also:

Oracle Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide for complete information about Oracle Multimedia DICOM features and enhancements