Patent ID: 8594922

Claim:
A method for translating, via a image translation device, an image onto a medium, wherein the image translation device comprises a communication interface, an input/output module, a position module, a navigation sensor, and a print head, and wherein the method comprises: receiving, at the communication interface of the image translation device, an image to be translated onto the medium; and as the image translation device is being moved over the medium to translate the image onto the medium, (i) tracking, via the navigation sensor of the image translation device, a non-linear movement of the image translation device relative to a fixed location on the medium, (ii) based on the tracked non-linear movement of the image translation device relative to the fixed location on the medium, determining, via the position module of the image translation device, a position of the print head relative to the fixed location on the medium, (iii) determining, via the input/output module of the image translation device, a portion of the image corresponding to the position of the print head relative to the fixed location on the medium, and (iv) depositing, via the print head of the image translation device, a printing substance onto the medium, wherein the printing substance deposited onto the medium represents the portion of the image corresponding to the position of the print head relative to the fixed location on the medium.