Scanning to storage medium using scanning device

• US 7,417,751 B2
• Filed: 08/12/2003
• Issued: 08/26/2008
• 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
• Primary Examiner(s): Safaipour; Houshang
• Application Number:
  US10/639,025
• Publication Number:
  US 20050036165A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,841 Days
• Field of Search: 358/472, 358/474, 358/1.16, 358/1.18, 358/1.13, 358/444
• US Class Current: 358/1.13
• 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 housing;

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

,

a removable storage media mechanism also disposed within the housing and receptive to a removable storage medium on which the image data scanned from the scannable media is stored,

such that the housing within which the scanning mechanism is disposed is a same housing within which the removable storage media mechanism is disposed,

wherein the removable storage medium also stores meta data regarding the image data, and

wherein the meta data comprises printing parameters for the image data, the printing parameters comprising whether the image data is to be printed on print media.

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, further comprising a user-interface mechanism via which a user is able to enter the meta data regarding the image data.

6. The scanning device of claim 1, wherein the meta data is stored with the image data as a single file on the removable storage medium.

7. The scanning device of claim 1, 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.

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

9. The scanning device of claim 8, wherein the image data scanned from the scannable media is printable on the print media by the printing mechanism.

10. The scanning device of claim 8, wherein the printing mechanism is one of a laser-printing mechanism and an inkjet-printing mechanism.

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

12. The scanning device of claim 11, wherein the faxes are storable as fax image data on the removable storage medium.

13. 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).