Portable camera with inbuilt printer device
View Patent ↗A portable camera with an inbuilt printer device is disclosed. The camera includes a digital image capture device, an inbuilt programming language interpreter internally connected to the digital image capture device for the manipulation of the digital image captured by the capture device and a script input means for inputting a self documenting program script for the manipulation and filtering of the captured digital image to produce visual alterations of the image. A card reader optically reads the script printed as an array of dots on one surface of a portable card, which has a visual example of the likely effect of the script on a second surface of the card. The script is interpreted and executed by the interpreter to modify the captured digital image in accordance with the script to produce a modified digital image. The modification is visually exemplified on the second surface of the card. The modified digital image is then printed out on the inbuilt printer device.
1. A portable camera including:
a digital image capture device for capturing a digital image;
a display for displaying at least the digital image;
a script input means for receiving program script, said script input means including a card reader for optically reading the program script printed as an array of dots on a surface of a portable card;
a programming language interpreter for manipulating the digital image in accordance with instructions contained in the program script; and
an inbuilt printer device for printing the digital image after manipulation by the programming language interpreter.
2. A portable camera as claimed in claim 1 wherein said card has, on said surface, a fault tolerant encoded form of the said program script.
3. A portable camera claimed in claim 1 wherein the manipulation includes image warping.
4. A portable camera claimed in claim 1 wherein the manipulation includes implementing convolution.
5. A portable camera claimed in claim 1 wherein the manipulation includes implementing color lookup tables.
6. A portable camera claimed in claim 1 wherein the manipulation includes posterising images.
7. A portable camera claimed in claim 1 wherein the manipulation includes adding noises to images.
8. A portable camera claimed in claim 1 wherein the manipulation includes image enhancement.
9. A portable camera claimed in claim 1 wherein the manipulation includes implementing image painting algorithms including brush jittering and tiling.
10. A portable camera claimed in claim 1 wherein the manipulation includes edge detection.
11. A portable camera claimed in claim 1 wherein the manipulation includes image illumination.
12. A portable camera claimed in claim 1 wherein the manipulation includes addition of text and fonts.
13. A portable camera claimed in claim 1 wherein the manipulation includes face detection.
14. A portable camera claimed in claim 1 wherein the manipulation includes utilisation of arbitrary complexity pre-rendered graphical objects.