Imaging device

• US 20070002364A1
• Filed: 06/29/2005
• Published: 01/04/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Smektala, Volker, Koehler, Duane, Jackson, Lee
• Application Number:
  US11/169,561
• Publication Number:
  US 20070002364A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.150
• 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 1/00347 with another still picture apparatus, e.g. hybrid still picture apparatus circuits or arrangements for control or supervision between image input and image output device H04N1/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0082 Image hardcopy reproducer H04N2201/0091 - H04N2201/0094 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0084 Digital still camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0094 Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception

Abstract

Embodiments of an imaging device are disclosed.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

sending data from an image-capturing device through an imaging device to a host device; and

forming a hard-copy image with the imaging device using processed data received from the host device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein sending data from an image-capturing device through an imaging device to a host device comprises sending the data through a hub integrated circuit of the imaging device.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprises converting the processed data into signals for instructing the imaging device to form the hard-copy image.

4. The method of claim 3 further comprises forming the hard-copy image on a media sheet using the imaging device.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprises echoing a display of the image-capturing device on a monitor of the host device.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprises identifying the image-capturing device at the host device before sending the data to the host device from the image-capturing device.

7. The method of claim 6 further comprises initializing the image-capturing device at the host device before sending the data to the host device from the image-capturing device.

8. A method, comprising:

identifying and initializing an image-capturing device at a host device;

sending data to the host device from the image-capturing device through an imaging device in response to user inputs to the image-capturing device;

processing the data at the host device;

sending the processed data to the imaging device from the host device; and

forming a hard-copy image corresponding to the processed data using the imaging device.

9. The method of claim 8 further comprises, before identifying and initializing the image-capturing device, communicatively coupling the image-capturing device to the host device by connecting the image-capturing device to the imaging device that is connected to the host device.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein sending data to the host device from the image-capturing device through the imaging device comprises sending the data through a hub integrated circuit within the imaging device.

11. The method of claim 8 further comprises converting the processed data into signals for instructing the imaging device to form the hard-copy image before forming the hard copy image.

12. The method of claim 8 further comprises rasterizing the data at the host device before sending the data to the imaging device.

13. The method of claim 8 further comprises activating a driver for controlling the imaging device in response to a user input to the image-capturing device.

14. A computer-usable medium containing computer-readable instructions for causing a host device to perform a method comprising:

sending data from an image-capturing device through an imaging device to a host device; and

forming a hard-copy image with the imaging device using processed data received from the host device.

15. The computer-usable medium of claim 14, wherein the method further comprises rasterizing the data before sending the data to the imaging device.

16. The computer-usable medium of claim 14, wherein the method further comprises performing at least one of color matching, image processing, image rotation, image enhancement in response to user inputs to the image-capturing device.

17. A system comprising:

a means for sending data from an image-capturing device through an imaging device to a host device; and

a means for forming an image using processed data received from the host device.

18. The system of claim 17 further comprises a means for identifying and initializing the image-capturing device at the host device before sending the data to the host device from the image-capturing device.

19. The system of claim 17 further comprises a means for activating a driver for controlling the imaging device in response to a user input to the image-capturing device before sending the data to the host device from the image-capturing device.

20. A system comprising:

a host device adapted to form processed data from data; and

an imaging device comprising a circuit for providing the data from an image-capturing device to the host device and receiving the processed data from the host device.

21. The system of claim 20, wherein the circuit is a hub integrated circuit.

22. The system of claim 20, wherein the host device is further adapted to activate a driver for controlling the imaging device in response to a user input to the image-capturing device.

23. The system of claim 20, wherein the image-capturing device is at least one of a digital camera, a scanner, a card reader, memory device, and a wireless device.

24. The system of claim 20, wherein the host device is further adapted to perform at least one of color matching, image processing, image rotation, image enhancement in response to user inputs to the image-capturing device.

25. The system of claim 20, wherein the host device is further adapted to identify and initialize the image-capturing device when the image-capturing device is connected to the imaging device.

26. An imaging device comprising:

an integrated circuit disposed between first and second ports, with the first port connectable to a host device and the second port connectable to an image-capturing device to enable data transmission from the image-capturing device to the host device through the circuit.

27. The imaging device of claim 26 further comprises a controller connected to the integrated circuit and a print engine connected to the controller.

28. The imaging device of claim 27 wherein the integrated circuit is integrated within the controller.

29. The imaging device of claim 26 wherein the integrated circuit includes a configuration to operate with a Universal Serial Bus.