Term #2,299
Digital Photograph
Claim Term
Digital Photograph
Reference Case 1
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Date Added
9/1/25
Created
9/1/25, 5:37 PM
Modified
9/1/25, 5:37 PM
Full Desc
“Digital Photograph” refers to any electronically captured still image formed by a sensor (e.g., CCD, CMOS, or the like) and stored as a pixel array, whether captured by a mobile device, camera, or computing device, depicting physical subjects or imagery displayed on a screen (including photographs of radiographic or fluoroscopic images shown on a monitor), prints, documents, or the like. A digital photograph also encompasses a single frame extracted from a video stream, as well as computationally produced captures such as HDR composites, low-light “night mode” images, stitched panoramas, or the like.
A digital photograph may be encoded in any format, bit depth, or color space (including RAW, JPEG, PNG, HEIF, TIFF, or the like), may include embedded metadata (e.g., EXIF, XMP, geolocation, orientation, timestamps, or the like), and may be cropped, scaled, filtered, denoised, compressed, decompressed, or otherwise transformed without ceasing to be a digital photograph. For the avoidance of doubt, a screen capture (screenshot) of on-screen imagery is treated as a digital photograph for purposes herein.
Applications using this term
| Matter | Usage | Notes | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 71212.157.USU1 | Defined | — | App terms |