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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2005
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2003
Philip G. Wessells, Mill Valley, CA (US);
Philip G. Wessells, Mill Valley, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
The present invention includes apparatus and method for image transfer onto one of a plurality of a pad medium pages while the pages are aggregated together. A preferred embodiment for an image transfer system, including a housing; an image capture system, within the housing and coupled to a transfer engine, for producing an image; the transfer engine, within the housing, for transferring the image to a transfer medium when the transfer medium is located at a transfer position; a transfer medium registration system, coupled to the transfer engine, for positioning a pad including a plurality of transfer media releasably secured to one another, wherein the transfer registration system locates one of the transfer media at the transfer position. An image transfer method includes capturing an image using an image capture system within a housing; positioning a pad at a transfer position of a transfer engine inside the housing, the pad including a plurality of transfer media releasably secured to one another; and transferring the image to one of the transfer media positioned at the transfer position.