This image, called a digital impression, draws the data into a computer.

One day, Robau told himself, we'll be able to do away completely with the primitive inputting of information via repeated digital impression and just talk to a ship's central data processing system about everything.

The CHIPS program interfaces with a digital video camera to take real time video snapshots and an infrared fingerprint scanner to capture digital impressions of a child's fingerprints.

His relish, too, of that surprise chiming C natural just before the conclusion is pure Cortot, a true 'shock' rather than a 'digital impression', to quote his own differentiation where true artistry is concerned.