Portable image forming apparatus using photosensitive recording medium
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMasashi Ueda
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Abstract
Disclosed is the image forming apparatus 1 in which, when the image displayed on the display 31 of the other electronic apparatus 30 is formed on the microcapsule sheet 2, the LC shutter 9 is opened for a predetermined time while contacting the display 31 to the contact plane A of the image forming apparatus 1 and light is irradiated on the microcapsule sheet 2 from the display 31, thereby, the desirable image is formed on the image forming layer 13 of the microcapsule sheet 2 according to the image displayed on the display 31.
Claims26
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a main body for storing a photo-sensitive recording medium on which a photosensitive image forming layer is formed;
- a contact plane on which an image display arranged in an external apparatus is contacted, the contact plane being formed on the main body;
- a control device for controlling light quantity irradiated on the photo-sensitive recording medium from the image display of the external apparatus according to an image displayed thereon, the control device being arranged on the contact plane;
- image forming means for forming the image on the photo-sensitive image forming layer on the basis of light irradiated thereon while controlling light quantity by the control device and contacting the image display to the contact plane;
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- a detection device for detecting whether the image display is contacting the contact plane.
The image forming apparatus according to claim, 1, wherein the detection device includes a pair of detecting buttons arranged at one end of the main body.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a storing member for storing a photo-sensitive recording medium on which a photo-sensitive image forming layer is formed;
- an image display for displaying an image thereon, the display being arranged on a main body;
- a fixing device for fixing the photo-sensitive recording medium to the image display while mutually contacting both the photo-sensitive recording medium and the image display;
- a control device for controlling light quantity from the image display according to the image displayed thereon, the control device being arranged on the storing member;
- image forming means for forming an image on the photo-sensitive image forming layer on the basis of light irradiated thereon while controlling light quantity by the control device;
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- an information device for producing a termination sound indicating termination of image formation after light is irradiated in the photo-sensitive recording medium for a predetermined time.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a storing member for storing a photo-sensitive recording medium on which a photo-sensitive image forming layer is formed;
- image data storing means for storing image data of an image to be formed on the photo-sensitive image forming layer;
- an image display for displaying the image data stored in the image data storing means thereon, the image display being arranged on a main body;
- a fixing device for fixing the photo-sensitive recording medium to the image display while mutually contacting both the photo-sensitive recording medium and the image display;
- a light control device for controlling light quantity irradiated on the photosensitive recording medium from the image display according to the image display thereon, the light control device being arranged on the storing member;
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- display control means for controlling the image display to display the image data according to a first display mode under which the image data is displayed on the image display so as to match with a person's vision when the photo-sensitive recording medium is not contacting the image display and to display the image data according to a second display mode under which the image data is displayed on the image display so that the image corresponding to the image data matches with the person's vision after being formed on the photo-sensitive recording medium when the photo-sensitive recording medium is contacting the image display.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.