What's New in Oracle Multimedia

This document summarizes the new features introduced in the current release.

New Features for Release 11.2

Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) includes the following new features for Oracle Multimedia:

• Support for the CMYK content format

• The image processing operator nometadata

• The image processing operator sharpen

• The image processing operator transparencyFillColor

• Image watermarking

• Support for new constructor functions for BLOBs and other sources for these object types:

  • ORDAudio

  • ORDDoc

  • ORDImage

  • ORDVideo

See Oracle Multimedia Reference for more information about these features.

Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) includes the following new features for Oracle Multimedia DICOM:

• DICOM to AVI conversion

• RLE compression

• YBR photometric interpretation

• Encoding of multibit monochrome raw content

• Recursive calls within constraint definitions

• Specifying a character set to override the default (ISO-IR 6 or ASCII) when the Specific Character Set attribute (0008,0005) is missing

• Oracle Data Pump Utilities support for the DICOM data model repository

• Limiting the list of DICOM attributes to be extracted by the setProperties( ) method to improve performance and reduce storage requirements

• DEFLATE compression format

• Oracle Multimedia Mid-Tier Java API, which enables users to write Java applications for extracting DICOM metadata outside of Oracle Database, facilitates the extraction of DICOM metadata attributes on which data is partitioned before the data is loaded into the database.

• DICOM value locator type syntax to enable users to reference DICOM metadata tags used in the DICOM configuration documents and that refer to private attribute definers

• Wildcard character syntax to enable iteration through all the components in a single predicate

See Oracle Multimedia DICOM Developer's Guide for more information about these features.