Sony patented touch-screen printer.

Images wirelessly from the camera to the printer copy, with the fingers on a screen and instantly edit in color on paper: apparently Sony is working on a new printer ink, where a touch screen the crucial role.

 

The real novelty is only in the fifth paragraph mentions: "The display has a touch panel function. From mobile phones, laptops and MP3 players know something already - as a characteristic of a printer, it is new. To read the sentence in the U.S.
Patent application 20090022510, filed on 22 January 2009 by the Sony Corporation.

And what else gets to read this document clearly shows that the engineers of the Japanese group actually an application have found that the use of a touch-sensitive screen can seem. The images that accompany the application, can also hope that the planned touch-screen printer, not only modern, but still chic and probably will be mobile.

However, the initiation of the patent application is anything but a desire to read more. From a pictorial unit ends with a discharge chute and a display that is mounted to housing ", there is the question. Aha, a printer with the display also. There is abundance, but this is different.

The images come wirelessly

This is the first of its touchscreen, the Sony illustrations that cover the entire position. With this screen, the user should have the opportunity, "the images to browse or print and on the output shaft of the display to get." Images of ways to manipulate, modify and edit, at least not yet speak - but maybe just like Sony has not revealed everything.

Giving is the way the developers that the images in the printer should be. "The surface is a touchscreen, the wireless connection with a digital camera and record their images automatically into the own memory can copy," they wrote. To transfer to set in motion, it should be rich, the camera "somewhere on the touch screen off."

Magic and tech

Sounds like a nice blend of magic and high tech, and quite reminiscent of huge concepts that Microsoft, with its
Surface Table has developed. With what technology Sony wireless connection will be open to the patent application, would certainly be conceivable Bluetooth. But the Near Field Communication technology (NFC), which together with Sony, Philips has developed could be integrated in order in tandem with Bluetooth to detect the camera and controlling the transfer guarantee.

But even all this is science fiction. So far there is not a single camera, which as a counterpart for such a printer would own. But even the might of the Japanese group in due course. Sure is: Sony is working because of an innovative new printing concept and filed for patent application gives hope that such devices, at least in the foreseeable future, actually on the market - if the group does not
lack of money must slow down the development.