WIRELESS PRINTING DEVICE FOR WIRELES DATA OUTPUT
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Abstract
An information apparatus with access to content is managed by establishing a communication channel between the information apparatus and an output device and receiving over the communication channel an output device profile associated with the output device. The information apparatus obtains one or more image attributes associated with the output device and conforms at least part of the content into one or more output images with the image attributes. The information apparatus generates an output data that includes the output images and is associated with the output device, and delivers the output data to the output device for rendering.
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43 Claims
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22. A wireless printing device, distinct and separate from a wireless information apparatus, for rendering digital content from the wireless information apparatus, said wireless printing device comprising:
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a radio wireless communication unit to receive an intermediate output data via radio wireless communication from one or more wireless information apparatus, the intermediate output data corresponding to at least part of the digital content that include at least an image data, said intermediate output data including at least one of image elements, graphics elements and text elements; a wireless communication software for establishing and managing the radio wireless communication with the wireless information apparatus, the managing of the radio wireless communication comprising; sending and or receiving a security key for enabling restricted wireless communication, and providing at least an indication of the identity of the wireless printing device over the radio wireless communication to the one or more wireless information apparatus; an interpreter for receiving the intermediate output data and retrieving said image data from said intermediate output data, the image data including two or more image layers; a rendering processor for carrying out at least one image processing operation on the image data, said processing operation adjusting at least one of a bit depth, a color space, a color correction, and a combination of output size and resolution of the image data individually or in any combination, the rendering processor being further operable to carry out a digital halftoning operation on the image data, and a print engine for receiving image data from said rendering processor and employing the data received from the processor to print an image corresponding to the digital content onto a substrate with a marking engine. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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28. A wireless printing device that includes a printer engine for rendering data encoded in a raster form, the wireless printing device including,
a wireless controller for managing wireless communication with other wireless devices, a printer engine for processing image data, the printer engine including a memory buffer for storing image data and a marking engine for rendering image data on to a substrate, the wireless printing device comprising: -
means for establishing a wireless communication channel with one or more other wireless devices, the one or more other wireless devices being distinct and separate from the wireless printing device and being one of a wireless print server or a wireless information apparatus; means for sending and or receiving a security key at the wireless printing device over the wireless communication channel for enabling restricted wireless communication; means for receiving at the wireless printing device, by wireless communication, an intermediate output data which includes one or more of an image data, a graphics data, a text data, corresponding to at least part of the digital content received from the wireless information apparatus or from the wireless print server; means for extracting an image data from said received intermediate output data, the image data including two or more image layers; means for processing a color correction operation on at least part of the image data; means for converting the image data to a raster form acceptable for rendering by a printer engine, the converting of the image data including at least a digital halftoning operation; means for supplying the image data in the raster form to the printing engine for printing; means for storing the image data in the memory buffer included in the printer engine; and means for rendering the image associated with the image data onto a substrate by the marking engine included in the printer engine. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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35. A wireless printing device for rendering content accessible with an wireless information apparatus, the wireless information apparatus being distinct from the wireless printing device, the wireless printing device including at least
a processing controller, an output engine, a wireless communication unit, and a memory buffer, wherein the processing controller processes received content into an output data that is more acceptable as input to the output engine, the output engine renders the processed content onto a substrate in accordance with the received output data, the wireless communication unit communicates with one or more wireless computing devices, and the memory buffer stores data for rendering; - the wireless printing device further comprising;
means for establishing a wireless communication with one or more wireless information apparatus with the wireless communication unit; means for sending and or receiving a security key with the wireless communication unit for enabling restricted wireless communication; means for providing at least an indication of the identity of wireless printing device by wireless communication to the one or more wireless information apparatus; means for receiving an intermediate output data at the wireless printing device from the wireless information apparatus, the intermediate output data corresponding to at least part of the content accessible by the wireless information apparatus, and means for processing the intermediate output data into a form more acceptable for rendering at the output engine; means for processing the output data, the processing including a digital halftoning operation; and means for delivering the processed output data to the output engine for rendering on a substrate an image corresponding to the digital content. - View Dependent Claims (36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43)
- the wireless printing device further comprising;
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