Decorating system for edible items
2 Assignments
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
A system for creating a decorative edible item from a selected image. The system includes at least one image source, such as a scanner and/or a library of stored images, a controller unit and a printer. An edible media is inserted into the printer. The user then selects the image source, such as the scanner for scanning in a photograph reminiscence of a person or event being honored. The size of the printed image is then selected as well as the number of copies to be printed from the image. The print sequence is then activated. The controller unit applies color correction to the digital image and converts the digital image into printer control signals to operate the printer. The printer then prints a rendition of the image with edible inks as the edible media travels through the printer. A high-quality pictorial rendition of the image is thus created. The printed edible media can then be applied onto a product, shipped to a separate location or eaten as is.
-
Citations
48 Claims
-
1-28. -28. (canceled)
-
29. A system for decorating an edible medium to be applied to one or more cakes, comprising:
-
a scanner device to generate a scanned image;
an edible ink printer to print edible ink upon an edible medium when the edible medium is received by the printer;
a control system coupled to the edible ink printer and the scanner device to retrieve the scanned image from the scanner and transmit the scanned image to the edible ink printer in response to user input; and
an input device to receive a user selection of a cake size on which the image is to be disposed, wherein the control system modifies the size of the scanned image according to the cake size selection. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
-
-
39. A method for decorating a cake of a particular size, comprising:
-
positioning an image on a scanner device to scan the image;
selecting a size of a cake to be decorated from a plurality of cake sizes;
scanning the image;
adjusting the size of the scanned image according to the selected cake size;
printing at least a portion of the scanned image onto an edible medium; and
applying the image-bearing edible medium to a cake having a size that substantially corresponds to the the selected cake size. - View Dependent Claims (40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45)
-
-
46. A system for decorating an edible medium to be applied to one or more cakes, comprising:
-
a scanner device to generate a scanned image;
an edible ink printer to print edible ink upon an edible medium when the edible medium is received by the printer;
control means for retrieving the scanned image from the scanner device and for transmitting the scanned image to the edible ink printer in response to user input, the control means being coupled to the edible ink printer and the scanner; and
an input means for selecting a cake size on which the scanned image is to be disposed, wherein the control means modifies the size of the scanned image according to the selected cake size. - View Dependent Claims (47, 48)
-
Specification