Image printing system and method

• US 20050105107A1
• Filed: 11/17/2003
• Published: 05/19/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/17/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Schneider, David A., Carleton, John M., Mick, John A.
• Application Number:
  US10/714,775
• Publication Number:
  US 20050105107A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.900
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00172 directly from a still digital camera or from a storage medium mounted in a still digital camera H04N1/0018 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00188 Printing, e.g. prints or reprints H04N1/0019, H04N1/00196 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00204 with a digital computer or a digital computer system, e.g. an internet server programmed control between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device H04N1/32561
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00249 with a photographic apparatus, e.g. a photographic printer or a projector photographic apparatus per se G03B, G03D
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00265 with a photographic printing apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32101 Display, printing, storage or transmission of additional information, e.g. ID code, date and time or title
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32128 attached to the image data, e.g. file header, transmitted message header, information on the same page or in the same computer file as the image for information embedded in the image H04N1/32144
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3201 Display, printing, storage or transmission of additional information, e.g. ID code, date and time or title
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3214 of a date
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3215 of a time or duration
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3277 The additional information being stored in the same storage device as the image data

Abstract

An image printing system comprises a graphics application executable by a processor. The graphics application is adapted to print image graphics data in a print area of a media object. The graphics application is also adapted to print image notation data to an extension area of the media object.

Claims

1. An image printing system, comprising:

a graphics application executable by a processor, the graphics application adapted to print image graphics data in a print area of a media object, the graphics application adapted to print image notation data to an extension area of the media object.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the extension area of the media object comprises a removable tab.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the extension area of the media object comprises a perforated tab.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the image notation data comprises meta-data extracted from a header associated with the image graphics data.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the image notation data comprises user-provided data received from a user via an input device.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the graphics application is disposed in at least one of the group consisting of a scanner, a copier, a printer, and a computer.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the graphics application is adapted to extract the image notation data from image meta-data.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the graphics application is adapted to parse at least one field of image meta-data to identify the notation data.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the graphics application is adapted to display to a user for selection as the notation data at least one field of parsed image meta-data.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the graphics application is adapted to receive from a user a selection of at least one field of parsed image meta-data as the notation data.

11. An image printing method, comprising:

receiving image graphics data;

identifying, via a graphics application, image notation data associated with the image graphics data;

printing, via the graphics application, the image graphics data to a print area of a media object; and

printing, via the graphics application, the image notation data to an extension area of the media object.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein identifying image notation data comprises extracting the image notation data from a header associated with the image graphics data.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein identifying image notation data comprises receiving user-provided image notation data.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein printing the image notation data comprises printing the image notation data to a removable tab of the media object.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein printing the image notation data comprises printing the image notation data to a perforated tab of the media object

16. The method of claim 11, wherein receiving image graphics data comprises receiving image graphics data via a memory card interface.

17. The method of claim 11, wherein identifying image notation data comprises parsing at least one field of image meta-data.

18. The method of claim 11, further comprising presenting to a user for selection as the notation data at least one field of parsed image meta-data.

19. The method of claim 11, further comprising receiving a selection from a user of at least one field of parsed image meta-data as the notation data.

20. A computer-readable medium having stored thereon an instruction set to be executed, the instruction set, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to:

identify graphics image data;

identify image notation data associated with the graphics image data;

print the graphics image data to a print area of a media object; and

print the image notation data to an extension area of the media object.

21. The computer-readable medium according to claim 20, wherein the instruction set, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to extract the image notation data from a header associated with the image graphics data.

22. The computer-readable medium according to claim 20, wherein the instruction set, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to identify user-provided image notation data.

23. The computer-readable medium according to claim 20, wherein the instruction set, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to parse at least one field of image meta-data to identify the notation data.

24. The computer-readable medium according to claim 20, wherein the instruction set, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to display to a user for selection as the notation data at least one field of parsed image meta-data.

25. The computer-readable medium according to claim 20, wherein the instruction set, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to receive from a user a selection of at least one field of parsed image meta-data as the notation data.

26. An image printing system, comprising:

means for receiving image graphics data;

means for identifying, via a graphics application, image notation data associated with the image graphics data;

means for printing the graphics image data to a print area of a media object; and

means for printing the image notation data to an extension area of the media object.

27. The system of claim 26, further comprising means for extracting the image notation data from a header associated with the graphics image data.

28. The system of claim 26, further comprising means for receiving user-provided image notation data from a user.

29. The system of claim 26, further comprising means for presenting to a user for selection as the notation data at least one field of parsed image meta-data.

30. The system of claim 26, further comprising means for receiving a selection from a user of at least one field of parsed image meta-data as the notation data.