Patent ID: 7289142

Claim:
A monolithic integrated circuit which comprises programmable processing circuitry that comprises at least four programmable circuitry elements; switching circuitry that is operatively connected to the programmable circuitry elements and is configured to provide data communication between the circuitry elements; a first image sensor interface that is connected to the processing circuitry and is configured to receive image manipulation signals from an image sensor and to pass image manipulation data representing the image manipulation signals to the programmable processing circuitry; a second image sensor interface that is connected to the processing circuitry and is configured to receive visual image signals from a second image sensor and to pass visual image data representing the visual image signals to the programmable processing circuitry; and a force sensor interface that is connected to the programmable processing circuitry, wherein when a force is applied to a print medium which the pagewidth printhead uses for printing the manipulated image, the force sensor interface receives a force sensor signal indicating a force has been applied to the print medium, wherein in response to the force sensor signal the programmable processing circuitry is configured to transfer an actuation signal to a guillotine actuator so that the print medium is severed by a guillotine; wherein the programmable processing circuitry is configured to manipulate the visual image data using the image manipulation data to generate a manipulated visual image, wherein the manipulated visual image data representing the manipulated visual image is received by the printhead interface for printing the manipulated image.