Importance

Loading Importance Indicators...

Abstract

An attachable printer for use with a electronic camera having an image sensor which captures an image of a subject onto the image sensor is disclosed. The camera includes electronics coupled to the image sensor for storing a digital image of the subject; a display; and circuitry coupled to the display and responsive to the stored digital image and effective in a first condition for producing a correctly oriented image on the display and in a second condition for producing a mirror image on the display. The printer is effective when connected in operative relationship to the display and having a moveable carriage, and a scanner and an ink jet printhead mounted on the carriage, and being arranged so that as the carriage moves, the scanner scans the mirror image on the display and produces image signals; and the ink jet printhead being responsive to the signals produced by the scanner for producing a correctly oriented image onto the receiver sheet.

Loading the Abstract Image...

First Claim