Patent ID: 7942332
Filing Date: 2011-05-17
Classification: B41J,B82Y,G03B,G06F,G06K,G06T,G09G,G11C,H04N,H05K,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A camera unit comprising: a display for displaying an image to be captured; an image sensor for digitally capturing the displayed image; a card reader having a linear scanner for scanning a surface of a removable card to sense a plurality of dots printed on the surface of the removable card, the plurality of dots representing a bit pattern encoding a program script; a card interface for receiving a signal from the card reader indicative of the sensed plurality of dots printed on the surface of the card, and decoding the sensed plurality of dots into the program script; and a printer configured to print a distorted image on print media, the distorted image being a version of the captured image distorted in accordance with the program script.