Mobile Printing

Mobile Printing and Imaging
by Howard Taub, PhD.
March 3, 2005 5:00PM- 6:00PM Hewlett Packard, Aguadilla Garaje I and II
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ABSTRACT: HP Labs has a strong core competency in imaging and printing technologies. As the corporate research division for HP, one of our goals is to look at future opportunities for imaging and printing and then to provide technologies to enable them. In this presentation, four research activities will be described which can lead to new imaging devices and services in the mobile imaging space. The projects described will include the following: (1) “Casual capture” is about how take high quality photos and good video using a wearable camera, (2) a translating camera for tourists who cannot read the language, (3) paper like displays that can be made cheaply in large and small formats, and (4) a prototype e-book with a unique page turning method.
BIOGRAPHY: Howard Taub is Vice President and Director of the Printing and Imaging Research Center (PIRC) at HP Labs. He is responsible for research programs in digital imaging, digital printing and publishing, digital entertainment, color reproduction, display technology, and a variety of emerging and disruptive technologies for future products. His research center has a long history of contribution to HP's printing and storage businesses, including playing a central role in HP's move into commercial printing, providing core technology that enabled HP to enter the digital photography business and inventing the encoding scheme used in DVD+RW optical drives. He has worked at HP Labs for 25 years and, before that, at the IBM Watson Research Center and for Data products Corporation. One of his early HP assignments was to manage the research project that invented and did fundamental research on HP's thermal inkjet technology. Howard earned his PhD in Solid State Physics from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in New York City. He is an inventor on more than 25 patents in printing and imaging and is a member of the American Physical Society and the Society for Imaging Science and Technology.

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