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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 08, 1998
Paul Rissman, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Hewlett Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A system and method utilize a digital camera-ready printer which can print directly from a variety of conventional digital cameras on the market. The digital camera-ready printer includes a camera interface that can link with a digital camera in different modes to transfer frames of digital image data from the digital cameras to the digital camera-ready printer. Preferably, the camera interface includes a hot shoe receptor to establish a convenient hot shoe link between the digital camera and the digital camera-ready printer. The digital camera-ready printer includes a processor that can identify the coupled digital camera in order to instruct the digital camera to transmit the frames of digital image data. The processor can also convert the format of the digital image data to a predetermined image file format. The processor of the digital camera-ready printer along with a display device allows a user to edit and manipulate an electronic image represented by a single frame of digital image data prior to printing.