Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Soukichi Araki

Hiroshi Hosaka

Eiji Sawamura

Yoshimasa Honda

Takakazu Nomura

Yasuhiro Tabata

Koji Hikawa

Naoko Kudo

Yuichi Deguchi

Shinji Imoto

Ryuzo Nitta

The present invention provides an image recording apparatus comprising a document size detection sensor 103 for recognizing a size of an image to be recorded, an image input section 101 for reading and storing therein the image to be recorded, a paper feeder (not shown herein) for storing therein and feeding recording paper having a specified size, an image forming section 108 for forming an image on recording paper fed from the paper feeder, an image processing section 106 for dividing a read image to two portions based on a result of detection by the document size detection sensor 103 when a size of the image to be recorded is larger than recording paper having a specified size and executing image processing for displacing a central position of each image so that an edge section of each image will be aligned to an edge of a binding space of each discrete sheet of recording paper, and an image output section 107 for outputting an image processed by the image processing section 108.

Image recording apparatus

The image recording apparatus optically reads image data on a document with an image area or a plurality of image areas specified therein and synthesizes image data of another document read subsequently into the specified image area or image areas changing the size thereof as needed accordingly an image on the other document can be allocated with a desired size at an arbitrary position on the first document and printed on a sheet of recording paper, thus improving the work efficiency and convenience of the apparatus.

Image synthesizing method and image recording apparatus which

An image recording apparatus including a document size detection sensor for recognizing a size of an image to be recorded, an image input section for reading and storing therein the image to be recorded, a paper feeder for feeding recording paper having a specified size, an image forming section for forming an image on recording paper fed from the paper feeder, a control means for calculating a number of sheets of recording paper to be recorded from said total number of pages, an image processing section for executing image processing for displacing a central position of each image so that an edge section of each image will be aligned to an edge of a binding space of each discrete sheet of recording paper, and an image output section for outputting an image processed by the image processing section 108.

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Soukichi Araki