IP Library Granted Patent US 7,837,115
Granted Patent B2
US 7,837,115 · App. 11/866,340 · Granted Nov 23, 2010

Camera unit configured to distort captured images

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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 7,837,115
App. No.
11/866,340
Granted
Nov 23, 2010
Kind
B2
Abstract

A camera unit includes a display configured to display an image to be captured. An image sensor is configured to digitally capture the displayed image. A card reader is configured to read a removable card carrying distortion information. A printer is configured to print a distorted image on print media, the distorted image being a version of the captured image which has been distorted in accordance with the distortion information.

Claims (15)

1. A camera unit comprising:

a display configured to display an image to be captured;

an image sensor configured to digitally capture the displayed image;

a card reader configured to read a removable card carrying distortion information; and

a printer configured to print a distorted image on print media, the distorted image being a version of the captured image which has been distorted in accordance with the distortion information.

2. A camera unit as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the card reader is configured to read encoded distortion information on one surface of the card.

3. A camera unit as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the card reader is configured to read a distorted image on an opposite surface of the card.

4. A camera unit as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the printer includes a replaceable print roll unit carrying both the print media and ink to be printed upon the print media.

5. A camera unit as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the print roll unit includes:

an elongate core having a plurality of ink supply containers, each for containing a respective type of the ink; and

a roll of print media including a tubular former in which the core can be received and a length of the print media which is wound upon the former.

6. A camera unit as claimed in claim 5 , wherein the print roll unit further includes:

a casing including a pair of molded covers which can be releasably fastened together to encase the roll of print media, and defining a print media exit slot; and

a pair of pinch rollers each rotationally mounted to the casing, and configured to feed print media from the former out through the exit slot.

7. A camera unit as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the display includes one of a liquid crystal display (LCD) or a view finder through which a camera unit user can look.

Assignments (3)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Oct 2, 2017
From: GOOGLE INC.
To: GOOGLE LLC
Reel/Frame 044101/0405 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 18, 2013
From: SILVERBROOK RESEARCH PTY LTD
To: GOOGLE INC.
Reel/Frame 029823/0339 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 2, 2007
From: SILVERBROOK, KIA; WALMSLEY, SIMON ROBERT
To: SILVERBROOK RESEARCH PTY LTD
Reel/Frame 019909/0992 →