PROJECTOR IMAGE PRINTING SYSTEM

• US 20090185147A1
• Filed: 01/22/2008
• Published: 07/23/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/22/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Dell Products LP (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Dell Products LP (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Inventors: Chopra, Vivek, Alaganchetty, Ramanathan, Arya, Sandeep Kumar
• Application Number:
  US12/017,456
• Publication Number:
  US 20090185147A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 353/121
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/00 Projectors or projection-type viewers; Accessories therefor devices for changing pictures G03B23/00

Abstract

In a projector image printing system, a projector receives an image, projects the image from the projector, and communicates the image from the projector to a printer. In an embodiment, a projector includes a graphics connectivity to receive an image from an information handling system (IHS), a projection system to project the image away from the projector, a graphics capture system to capture the image as a data file, and a communication system to communicate the data file to a printer. In another embodiment, a method to print an image from a projector includes receiving a print instruction from a user, converting a projected screen by the projector to an image, and sending the image to a printer.

Claims

1. A projector image printing system, the system comprising one or more subsystems to:

receive an image into a projector;

project the image from the projector;

communicate the image from the projector to a printer;

communicate the image from the projector to the printer via a network;

remotely control communication of the image from the projector to the printer; and

select the printer to receive the image from the projector from a plurality of printers.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the network is a local area network (LAN) or a personal area network (PAN).

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the network communicates wirelessly between the projector and the printer.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the image is communicated from the projector to the printer as a graphic image file.

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8. A projector comprising:

a graphics connectivity to receive an image from an information handling system (IHS);

a projection system to project the image away from the projector;

a graphics capture system to capture the image as a data file; and

a communication system to communicate the data file to a printer.

9. The projector of claim 8, further comprising:

a control device to receive an input from a user and instruct the projector to communicate the data file to the printer.

10. The projector of claim 9, wherein the control device is a wireless remote control device.

11. The projector of claim 9, wherein the control device includes a dedicated print button to receive the input from the user.

12. The projector of claim 8, operable to communicate the data file to the printer via a network.

13. The projector of claim 8, wherein the printer is selected from a plurality of available printers on a network.

14. A method to print an image from a projector, the method comprising:

receiving a print instruction from a user;

converting a projected screen by the projector to an image;

sending the image to a printer;

allowing the user to select a printer where to send the image;

determining whether the selected printer is available; and

informing the user about sending the image to the printer.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein converting a projected screen by the projector to an image converts the projected screen to a graphics data file.

19. The method of claim 14, wherein the projected screen is receive by the projector from an information handling system (IHS).

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20. A projector image printing system comprising:

an information handling system (IHS);

a projector to receive an image file from the IHS and convert the image file to an image to project out of the projector,

a controller communicatively coupled with the projector to receive an instruction from a user to capture the projected image as a print screen function;

a printer to receive the captured projected image; and

a network communicatively coupled between the projector and the printer.