Hand-held manually sweeping printing apparatus
AssigneeCasio Computer Co., Ltd.
InventorsHiroshi Yajima, Masaki Hayashi, Takashi Satoh, Masaharu Shioya
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Abstract
A hand-held manually sweeping printing apparatus includes a manually manipulatable housing. A data input section, a memory, a printer head, a roll of ink ribbon, and an encoder are mounted within the housing. When a user holds the microcopier and sweeps it across a piece of paper, the printer head can print image data on the paper. Since the printer head is movable in response to various conditions caused by the pressure applied to the piece of paper, or surface conditions of the paper, a high-quality printing is realized. The data input section may be replaced by an image sensor, in which case the information on an original can be read and reproduced on the piece of paper.
Claims29
A hand-held electronic apparatus, including:
- a manually manipulatable housing, said housing comprising:
- input means for producing image information signals while said housing is manually swept across a material having image information to be copied;
- memory means for storing the image information signals derived from said input means;
- printing means for printing image information on a printing medium while said housing is manually swept across said printing medium;
- printer-driving means for driving said printing means in response to the image information signals when read out from said memory means;
- position-detecting means for detecting the relative position of said housing while being swept across either of said material or said printing medium, and for producing a position signal every time said housing is swept over a predetermined distance, said position signal representing the position of said housing with respect to either of said material or said printing medium;
- control means for controlling said printer-driving means in synchronism with the position signal produced by said position-detecting means, so as to cause said printing means to print the image information on said printing medium in the same manner as said image information is formed on said material to be copied;
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- addressing means for designating an area of said memory means in response to the signal produced by said position-detecting means as an image information signal from said input means is written in designated areas of said memory means, and for designating an area of said memory means ahead of the signal produced by said position-detecting means when said image information signal is read out from said memory means and supplied to said printer-driving means, so that image information is printed on said printing medium in correspondence with the signal produced by said position-detecting means.
A hand-held electronic apparatus which is sweepable across a printing medium, including:
- a manually manipulatable housing;
- said housing comprising:
- character-date input means for inputting character data;
- memory means for storing the character data entered by said character-data input means;
- printing means coupled to said memory means for printing the character data stored in said memory means on a printing medium;
- position-detecting means for detecting the relative position of said housing while said housing is being swept across said printing medium, and for producing a position-detecting signal every time said housing is swept over a predetermined distance;
- signal generating means for generating information signals according to the character data stored in said memory means;
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- control means for sequentially supplying said information signals obtained by said signal generating means to said printing means, and for controlling said printing means in response to the position-detecting means, so that said printing means prints the character data on said printing medium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.