Abstract:
An electronic print board comprising: a recording medium formed by a flexible sheet for recording erasable recordings and/or drawings or for holding a data sheet thereon, a mechanism for moving said recording medium, a scanning system for scanning the writings and/or drawings or data carried on a data sheet secured on the recording medium and providing electric signals corresponding to the writings and/or drawings or the data, operating unit including sheet size selecting switches, an image memory for storing data corresponding to the writings and/or drawings or the data carried on a data sheet secured on the recording medium. A control circuit for controlling the scanning operation of the scanning system, reading data from the image memory and printing the data on a printing sheet, and a reading and printing unit for reading data from the image memory and printing the data read from the image memory under the control of the control circuit. The electronic print board is capable of scanning the entire area of the surface of the recording medium or only a limited area of the same corresponding to a size of sheet selected, of printing the data corresponding the entire area of the recording medium or only the data within a limited area corresponding to a size of a data sheet selected by means of one of the sheet size selecting switches, and of producing one copy or a plurality of copies of the same data.
Abstract:
An electronic print board apparatus for optical reading of characters and figures, etc., written on a plate surface and operable to scale down and print them. The apparatus includes a writing part (10), a frame part (20), a scanning part, and a printing part (111). The writing part (10) is divided into two sections, each of which has a plurality of stacked writable flat plates, a writing surface being formed by the front rows of said two sections. The writing surface can be changed by rotating and moving one flat plate of the two flat plates located on the front row to the position of the other flat plate. The scanning part is supported movably on said frame part (20), and incorporates drive means for said movement, a read part (32) having a sensor (32a), synchronization means (33) for synchronizing the scanning by said read part (32) with the moving speed of said scanning part, a battery (107) for supplying power, and transmitting means for transmitting the read signal by making use of radio, for optically scanning the writing surface and for thereby issuing the read information. The printing part (111) has receiving means for receiving the information transmitted from said scanning part and prints in conformity with said information.
Abstract:
An information processing apparatus having first and second cases (13a, 13b) that are openably/closably connected, and includes an imaging section (6) provided in the second case and opposed to the first case where a read target medium is placed, a detection section (1) which detects that the first and second cases have been closed into a predetermined state by plural types of methods, an acquisition section (1) which acquires a photographed image from the imaging section when the detection section detects that the first and second cases have been closed into the predetermined state by the plural types of methods, a correction section (1) which performs distortion correction processing on the photographed image acquired by the acquisition section, based on a closing state between the first and second cases detected by the detection section, and a storing section (3) which stores the photographed image corrected by the correction section.
Abstract:
A sheet of paper or a markerboard has low contrast markers for assisting imaging and image processing. Preferably the markers are brighter than the background. An imaging method for automatically capturing an image of the paper sheet or markerboard and an image processing method for processing the image are also covered.
Abstract:
A scanning system including a scanning module mounted in a body, such that the scanning module scans in a capture zone to capture an archival image of said capture zone as well as one or more non-archival images. One or more image capture modules mounted in the body in fixed relation to the capture zone being operative to capture a stream of the non-archival images in the capture zone.
Abstract:
A process is useful for making stage sets or paintaing other large objects and surfaces in accordance with corresponding models. The image data are input and possibly processed on screen by a computer-assisted operation, converted into a digital data structure and stored. When required, the digital data are retrieved, converted into control signals for the corresponding nozzles (16, 17) and then represented in dot form on the surface to be painted (3). When making stage sets, a portal frame (8) is used, which can be moved on portal rails (6, 7) arranged along the longitudinal edges of the set holder (4). A nozzle carriage (14) can be moved perpendicular to the portal frame (8). A central processing unit (25) with display and keyboard and other processors ensure precise control of the corresponding nozzles by the output electronics (18) associated with the nozzles (16, 17).
Abstract:
An image forming optical system (100) includes a first image forming unit (101) configured to form an image of a first surface (1) onto a second surface (2), a second image forming unit (102) including at least a portion of the first image forming unit (101) and configured to form an image of the second surface (2) onto a third surface (3), and a deflection unit (104) configured to deflect light from the second surface (2) toward the third surface (3). The numerical aperture of the first image forming unit (102) on the side toward the second surface (2) is larger than the numerical aperture of the second image forming unit (102) on the side toward the second surface (2).
Abstract:
Image reproduction and recording system, having exclusive plurality of uses, with the methods for positioning, processing and controlling, with flexible operations (hand, robot, vehicle) of head carrier, works based on mechanical-guiding-apparatus-free positioning system. The common apparatuses include: head Gamier, sprayer/reader or sprayer/reader array, and computer. Additional apparatuses used in relative-motion-based method or wave-based method, include operation-module(OM) and motion-detectors(MD), or operation-unit(OU) and communication-units(CU's), respectively. The MD and OM provide the information of positioning for computer to determines the relative position and direction of the head array on head carrier. The CU's radiate and receive signal needed for determining distance information. The OU processes and converts the received signal into distance-related data and pass to computer. The computer determines the coordinates of a head in the head array from these data, and sends it back to OU or OM. Then the OU or OM sends the color data and spraying commands to head array, and provides power for head, or sends reading commands to reader array for reading color data.
Abstract:
Um die Aufnahme eines Bildes von einem Display oder einer Fläche, insbesondere einer spiegelnd reflektierenden Oberfläche zu verbessern, schlägt die Erfindung ein Bildaufnahmegerät mit einer Bildaufnahmeeinheit und einer Bildanlagefläche vor, bei welchem die optische Achse der Bildaufnahmeeinheit in einem Winkel α gegenüber einer Flächennormalen der Bildanlagefläche angeordnet ist.