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US 12,056,546 B2Granted
Methods and systems for operating a printing apparatus
AssigneeHand Held Products, Inc.
InventorsSze Ping Ching, Phek Thong Lee, Cheng Khoon Ng, Suraini Binte Saptu
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Abstract
Various embodiments illustrated herein disclose a method comprising rendering a buffer image from a first image data received for printing. Further, the method includes scaling the buffer image to generated scaled buffer image. Furthermore, the method includes determining a first location of a machine readable indicia in the scaled buffer image. Additionally, the method includes causing a print head to print the buffer image on a print media to generate a printed content.
Claims20
A method for operating a user computing device, the method comprising:
- receiving, by one or more processors, an instruction from the user computing device, wherein the instruction coin rises a first image data a scale ratio, and coordinates of one or more first locations of a machine readable indicia in the first image data;
- rendering, by the one or more processors, a buffer image from the first image data;
- causing, by the one or more processors, a print head of a printing apparatus to print the buffer image on a print media to generate a printed content, wherein the printed content comprises the machine readable indicia printed at one or more second locations;
- causing, by the one or more processors, traversal of the print media along a media path to align a portion of the printed content with an image sensor based on distances between the print head of the printing apparatus the image sensor and the one or more second locations in the printed content, wherein the portion of the printed content is at the one or more second locations in the printed content;
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- causing, by the one or more processors, the image sensor to capture a second image of the machine readable indicia printed at the one or more second locations based on the one or more first locations of the machine readable indicia, wherein the one or more second locations in the printed content corresponds to the one or more first locations in the first image data.
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A printing apparatus comprising:
- a print head configured to print a first image on print media to generate a printed content;
- an image sensor configured to capture a second image of a portion of the printed content;
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- a processor communicatively coupled to the print head and the image sensor, wherein the processor is configured to:
- receive an input from a user computing device pertaining to printing the first image, wherein the input comprises a first image data, a scale ratio, and coordinates of one or more first locations of a machine readable indicia in the first image data;
- render a buffer image from the first image;
- cause the print head to print the buffer image on the print media to generate the printed content, wherein the printed content comprises the machine readable indicia printed at one or more second locations;
- cause the processor to traverse the print media along a media path to align the portion of the printed content with the image sensor based on distances between the print head of the printing apparatus, the image sensor, and the one or more second locations in the printed content, wherein the portion of the printed content is at the one or more second locations in the printed content;
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- cause the image sensor to capture the second image of the machine readable indicia printed at the one or more second locations, based on the one or more first locations of the machine readable indicia, wherein the one or more second locations in the printed content corresponds to the one or more first locations in the first image data.
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A system comprising:
- a printing apparatus comprising:
- a print head configured to print a first image on print media to generate a printed content;
- an image sensor configured to capture a second image of a portion of the printed content;
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- a user computing device communicatively coupled with the printing apparatus via a network, wherein the printing apparatus comprises a processor configured to:
- receive an input from the user computing device pertaining to printing the first image, wherein the input comprises a first image data, a scale ratio, and coordinates of one or more first locations of a machine readable indicia in the first image data;
- render, by the processor, a buffer image from the first image data;
- cause the print head to print the buffer image on the print media to generate the printed content, wherein the printed content comprises the machine readable indicia printed at one or more second locations;
- cause the processor to traverse the print media along a media path to align the portion of the printed content with the image sensor based on distances between the print head of the printing apparatus, the image sensor, and the one or more second locations in the printed content, wherein the portion of the printed content is at the one or more second locations in the printed content;
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- cause an image capturing unit to capture the second image of the machine readable indicia printed at the one or more second locations, based on the one or more first locations of the machine readable indicia, wherein the one or more second locations in the printed content correspond to the one or more first locations in the first image data, wherein the processor is configured to grade the machine readable indicia in the second image.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.