Printing optical disc player/recorder
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsChristen Kent Pedersen, Thomas Herman Szolyga
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Abstract
This disclosure provides a stand alone printing optical disc player/recorder for use in connection with CD's, DVD's, and Mini-Discs. In a particular embodiment the printing player/recorder has a combined player/recorder unit and an inkjet printer. Using a platter transport the printer player/recorder is capable of reading or writing information to a provided optical disc and then printing a label upon the optical disc without removing the disc from the system. The label printed may also be generated from the information read from or written to the optical disc itself thereby insuring a match between the label and the information encoded upon the optical disc. Associated methods of use are also provided.
Claims33
A printing optical disc player/recorder system comprising:
- a case;
- at least one motor mounted within the case;
- an optical disc transport mounted within the case and actuated by at least one motor;
- at least one optical disc read/write device mounted within the case and proximate to the transport to read/write information upon an optical disc provided by the transport;
- and
- at least one printer mounted within the case and proximate to the transport to print identifying indicia upon an optical disc provided by the transport.
A printing optical disc player/recorder comprising:
- a case;
- transport means for transporting an optical disc within the case;
- drive means for spinning the optical disc presented by the transport means;
- optical read means for reading the optical disc spun by the drive means;
- optical encoding means for writing to the optical disc spun by the drive means;
- processing means for processing the optical disc read and write information, the processing means generating virtual indicia based upon the optical disc information;
- printer means for printing the virtual indicia as generated by the processing means;
- input means for inputting information to be processed by the processing means for encoding upon the optical disc;
- and
- output means for outputting information read from the optical disc and processed by the processing means.
A method of printing identifying indicia upon an optical disc in a printing optical disc player/recorder system, comprising:
- inserting an optical disc into the printing optical disc player/recorder system;
- reading encoded data information from the optical disc;
- generating disc information from the encoded data information;
- and
- printing at least a subset of the disc information to the optical disc.
A method of recording an optical disc and printing identifying indicia upon that optical disc in a printing optical disc player/recorder system, comprising:
- inserting a recordable optical disc into the printing optical disc player/recorder system;
- providing media for recording upon the optical disc;
- encoding the media upon the recordable optical disc;
- generating disc information from the provided media;
- and
- printing at least a subset of the disc information to the recordable optical disc.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.