Back to results
US 6,791,605 B1Granted
Image capture and printing device
AssigneeEastman Kodak Company
InventorsSamuel Reele, Ronald Sagen
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
An image producing device (10) including a digital camera an area image sensor (20) disposed at an image plane for receiving the image of a subject (21), and producing a digitized image thereof. A CPU (32a) is adapted to direct the output to a variety of storage mediums. A printer (30) is connected to the CPU (32a) for producing a hard copy (39) of the digital image as shown on an image display (38b). The integral digital camera adjustably; directable from 0° to 360° in a horizontal plane and selectively directed at a sheet display (54) or at a subject (21) for a portrait.
Claims23
An image producing device comprising:
- a) a lens for focusing an image of a first subject at an image plane while the first subject is oriented in a vertical direction and the lens faces the first subject that is spaced from the lens in a first horizontal direction, the first subject being a portrait subject;
- b) an area image sensor disposed at the image plane for capturing the image of the first subject and producing digital image information representing the first subject, said area image sensor and said lens being supported to be rotatable about a vertical axis so that the lens is selectively pointed so as to be spaced in a second horizontal direction from a second subject for allowing capturing of an image by the image sensor of the second subject that is vertically supported and producing digital image information representing the second subject and wherein the second subject is a document that is oriented vertically;
- c) a storage device for selectively storing digital image information of the first or second subjects, said storage device being coupled to the area image sensor;
- d) a display device for selectively displaying a digital image representation of the first subject and a digital image representation of the second subject, said display device being coupled to the storage device;
- e) a printer for selectively producing a hard copy output of each of the first subject and the second subject as selectively shown by the display device;
- f) a central processing unit for controlling and adjusting the output to said printer and to said display device, said central processing unit connected to said storage device, said central processing unit being capable of controlling and adjusting the respective outputs of the first and second subjects to said printer and to said display device;
- and
- g) a document support device for supporting a document comprising the second subject in a vertical orientation.
5 more elements
An image producing device comprising:
- a) integral focusing means for focusing an image of a first subject at an image plane;
- b) an integral area image sensor disposed at the image plane for receiving the image of the first subject and producing a digital image representing the first subject;
- c) integral storage means coupled to the area image sensor for storing the digital image of the subject;
- d) an integral central processing unit connected to said storage means and an integral control keypad means adapted to cooperate with the central processing unit for controlling and adjusting the digital image of said subject to an integral printer and to an integral display;
- e) said integral display for displaying the digital image of the first subject;
- and
- f) said integral printer for selectively producing a hard copy output of the first subject as shown by the display;
- and
- g) a support for supporting the focusing means for rotation about a vertical axis;
- and
- h) a document support for supporting a document in a vertical plane for capturing an image of the document by said image sensor means while the document is supported by said document support in said vertical plane.
8 more elements
A method for producing images, the method comprising:
- providing a digital camera supported for rotation about a vertical axis;
- providing a document support for supporting a document in a vertical orientation;
- operating the digital camera to record an image of a portrait subject in a first orientation of the digital camera about the vertical axis;
- rotating the digital camera about the vertical axis to a second orientation of the digital camera about the vertical axis;
- operating the digital camera after rotation to the second orientation to record an image of the document while supported in the vertical orientation;
- and
- printing selectively images recorded by the digital camera.
4 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.