Dry erase electronic whiteboard with page-wide-array inkjet printer
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Company
InventorFrank P. Carau, Sr.
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Abstract
A device for electronically capturing an image on a whiteboard, storing the image and then putting the captured image back onto the whiteboard using dry erase ink in an inkjet printhead array. The image capture portion of the device may include an image capture array that is a whiteboard-wide-array of image capture elements. The image replace portion of the device may include a whiteboard-wide-array of inkjet printhead elements. The data storage portion of the device may either be on the device or off of the device or both. The device may also be capable of interactive whiteboard image manipulation from a remote location via the Internet, telecommunications, facsimile, infrared, modem, or other known electronic data transmission means.
Claims19
A whiteboard image capture/inkjet printhead device for electronically capturing an image on a whiteboard and putting a stored electronic image onto a whiteboard having a predetermined width, said whiteboard image capture/inkjet printhead device comprising:
- an electronic image capture array;
- an inkjet printhead array;
- an electronic data storage;
- and
- a means of attaching to said whiteboard and moving said whiteboard image capture/inkjet printhead device across the width of said whiteboard.
A method for capturing an image on a whiteboard and putting the image back onto the whiteboard, said method comprising the following steps:
- electronically capturing said image on said whiteboard;
- storing the electronically captured image;
- and
- putting the electronically captured image back onto said whiteboard using dry erase ink and inkjet printhead array.
Apparatus for use with a whiteboard, comprising:
- scanner apparatus, said scanner apparatus being operatively associated with the whiteboard so that said scanner apparatus scans an object on the whiteboard and produces an image data signal representative of the scanned object;
- and
- printer apparatus, said printer apparatus being operatively associated with the whiteboard so that said printer apparatus prints an image onto the whiteboard, said printer apparatus also being operatively associated with said scanner apparatus so that said printer apparatus receives the image data signal produced by said scanner apparatus and prints an image of the scanned object onto the whiteboard.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.