Scanning to storage medium using scanning device

• US 20050036165A1
• Filed: 08/12/2003
• Published: 02/17/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 08/12/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Zhou, Laura, Jia, Charles
• Granted Patent: US 7,417,751 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.130
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/2104 for one or a few pictures
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/2158 using a detachable storage unit
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0081 Image reader H04N2201/0091 - H04N2201/0094 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0087 Image storage device

Abstract

A scanning device of one embodiment of the invention is disclosed that includes a scanning mechanism and a removable storage media mechanism disposed within a housing of the scanning device. The scanning mechanism is to scan image data from scannable media. The removable storage media mechanism is receptive to a removable storage medium on which the image data scanned from the scannable media is stored.

Claims

1. A scanning device comprising:

a scanning mechanism disposed within a housing of the scanning device to scan image data from scannable media; and

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a removable storage media mechanism disposed within the housing of the scanning device and receptive to a removable storage medium on which the image data scanned from the scannable media is stored.

2. The scanning device of claim 1, wherein the image data is scannable from the scannable media and storable on the removable storage medium without the scanning device communicatively coupling to a host computing device.

3. The scanning device of claim 1, wherein the scanning mechanism comprises at least one of a color scanning mechanism and a black-and-white scanning mechanism.

4. The scanning device of claim 1, wherein the removable storage media mechanism comprises at least one removable storage media slot, each slot receptive to a removable storage media card.

5. The scanning device of claim 1, wherein the removable storage medium also stores meta data regarding the image data.

6. The scanning device of claim 5, further comprising a user-interface mechanism via which a user is able to enter the meta data regarding the image data.

7. The scanning device of claim 5, wherein the meta data comprises printing parameters for the image data.

8. The scanning device of claim 5, wherein the meta data is stored with the image data as a single file on the removable storage medium.

9. The scanning device of claim 5, wherein the meta data is stored on the removable storage medium as a first file and the image data is stored on the removable storage medium as a second file.

10. The scanning device of claim 1, further comprising a printing mechanism to print images on print media.

11. The scanning device of claim 10, wherein the image data scanned from the scannable media is printable on the print media by the printing mechanism.

12. The scanning device of claim 10, wherein the printing mechanism is one of a laser-printing mechanism and an inkjet-printing mechanism.

13. The scanning device of claim 1, further comprising a faxing mechanism to fax the image data scanned from the scannable media and to receive faxes.

14. The scanning device of claim 13, wherein the faxes are storable as fax image data on the removable storage medium.

15. The scanning device of claim 1, wherein the scanning device is one of a standalone-capable scanner and a standalone-capable multi-function device (MFD).

16. A scanning device comprising:

means for scanning image data from scannable media; and

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means for storing the image data onto a removable storage medium without the scanning device communicatively coupling to a host computing device.

17. The scanning device of claim 16, wherein the means for storing the image data onto the removable storage medium is further for storing meta data regarding the image data onto the removable storage medium.

18. The scanning device of claim 16, wherein the scanning device is one of a standalone-capable scanner and a standalone-capable multi-function device (MFD).

19. A method comprising:

scanning scannable media as image data using a scanning device; and

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storing the image data onto a removable storage medium within the scanning device without using a host computing device.

20. The method of claim 19, further comprising storing meta data regarding the image data onto the removable storage medium.

21. The method of claim 20, further comprising entering the meta data regarding the image data into the scanning device by a user.

22. The method of claim 19, further comprising removing the removable storage medium from the scanning device by the user.

23. The method of claim 19, further comprising repeating scanning the scannable media as the image data and storing the image data onto the removable storage medium for different scannable media, resulting in additional image data stored on the removable storage medium.

24. The method of claim 19, further comprising printing the image data on print media by the scanning device, where the scanning device is a multi-function device (MFD) having printing capability.

25. The method of claim 19, further comprising faxing the image data by the scanning device, where the scanning device is a multi-function device (MFD) having faxing capability.