Photographic prints having magnetically recordable media

• US 7,590,347 B2
• Filed: 12/06/2007
• Issued: 09/15/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/15/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Silverbrook Research Pty Limited
• Inventors: Silverbrook, Kia
• Primary Examiner(s): PERKEY, WILLIAM B
• Application Number:
  US11/951,960
• Publication Number:
  US 20080075443A1
• Time in Patent Office: 649 Days
• Field of Search: 396/312, 396/30, 396/33, 396/14, 396/315, 348/207.2, 355/18, 355/31, 355/72, 358/296, 346/140.1, 347/48, 360/3
• US Class Current: 396/312
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 2/16585 for paper-width or non-reciprocating print heads
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 2/17513 Inner structure
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 2/17596 Ink pumps, ink valves
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 17/24 with means for separately producing marks on the film, e.g. title, time of exposure
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 31/06 in which sound track is associated with successively-shown still pictures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/79 in semiconductor storage media, e.g. directly-addressable memories
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/86 Secure or tamper-resistant housings
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2129 Authenticate client device independently of the user
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00127 Connection or combination of a still picture apparatus with another apparatus, e.g. for storage, processing or transmission of still picture signals or of information associated with a still picture
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00278 with a printing apparatus, e.g. a laser beam printer
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00326 with a data reading, recognizing or recording apparatus, e.g. with a bar-code apparatus arrangements for the associated working of recording or reproducing apparatus with related apparatus G11B31/00
• 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 1/0044 for image preview or review, e.g. to help the user position a sheet
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/2112 using still video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/2154 the still video camera incorporating a hardcopy reproducing device, e.g. a printer
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32106 separate from the image data, e.g. in a different computer file
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32133 on the same paper sheet, e.g. a facsimile page header
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32138 in an electronic device attached to the sheet, e.g. in an RFID tag
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2101/00 Still video cameras
• 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 2201/3261 : of multimedia information, e.g. a sound signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3264 : of sound signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3284 : for error correction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/00 : Cameras or camera modules comprising electronic image sensors; Control thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/2628 : Alteration of picture size, shape, position or orientation, e.g. zooming, rotation, rolling, perspective, translation

Abstract

A camera provides a photo 7 printed on print media via printer device 6 under the control of a central processor 4. The photo 7 is a print of an image 5 provided by a CCD sensor 3. The photo 7 includes print media having, in addition, a magnetically recordable medium whereby sound processed by sound chip 10 received from sound microphone 13 and/or processed by central processor 4 can be recorded with magnetic recording head 16 on the photo 7. The photo 7 is printed using an ink jet printer on suitable ink jet compatible print media preferably with the magnetically recordable medium on the rear of the photo 7 and the image 2 on the front surface of the photo 7.

Claims

1. A camera system for recording images, said camera system comprising:

an electronic image sensor for sensing an image;

a digital processing means for processing said sensed image in accordance with predetermined processing requirements;

a photo width ink jet printer means for printing said processed image on a printing surface of ink jet print media, said print media being treated so that it is magnetically sensitive; and

a magnetic recording means for recording associated information on a magnetic recording surface of said print media at the same time as said ink jet printer means prints said processed image onto the printing surface.

2. A camera system as claimed in claim 1 wherein said associated information comprises audio information associated with said sensed image.

3. A camera system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the printer means prints said sensed image on a first surface of said print media and the magnetic recording means records said associated information on a second surface of said print media.

4. A camera system as claimed in claim 1 wherein said print media is stored on an internal detachable roll in said camera system, said camera system comprising a hand held portable camera device, said photo width ink jet printer being built into said hand held portable camera device.

5. A camera system as claimed in claim 3 wherein said first and said second surfaces are on different faces of said print media.