Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Kazuyuki Honda

Yukio Inagi, Isaka

Yasuhito Suzuki

Koichiro Akimoto

Hajime Ohshima

Yoshifumi Okamoto

Masaru Igarashi

Masayoshi Suzuki

An image data control apparatus includes a memory for storing image data and a reader for reading the image data from the memory. The reader can operate in a first mode for erasing the image data in association with the reading of the image data from the memory and can operate in a second mode for restoring the read image data in the storage means in association with the reading of the image data from the memory.

Image data control apparatus

An output apparatus to generate a decoration rule pattern comprises: a memory to store data indicative of a kind of pattern to be generated and data indicative of an output position of the pattern; and a making circuit to make a pattern on the basis of the data indicative of the kind of the pattern to be generated and the data indicative of the output position which are stored in the memory, wherein the making circuit continuously makes a plurality of units of the pattern to be generated, makes a rotation pattern (rotated version) of the unit, and makes a pattern of an edge portion of the pattern to be generated from the unit. With the apparatus, a decoration rule pattern can be drawn at the high speed and with high quality by rotating a pattern and repetitively generating a pattern.

Pattern output apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes a print data input device for inputting print data, a processor for performing data-processing of the print data, and an output device for outputting the processed print data as image data to an image forming unit. The processor includes a first setting device for setting line direction data representing a line direction, a second setting device for setting character direction data representing character direction, and a third setting device for setting line feed direction data representing line feed direction. The processor determines a processing mode of the inputted print data on the basis of the line direction data, the character direction data, and the line feed direction data.

Image recording apparatus capable of forming image outputs in various

An image recording apparatus has image forming means for forming an image on a record medium. The image forming means determines a record mode in accordance with designated page direction and print direction.

Image recording apparatus

An apparatus for recording an image on a record medium includes an image forming device which operates in a plurality of record modes, and a control device for determining the record mode to be used on the basis of inputted page direction information and inputted print direction information.

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Kazuyuki Honda