Shinko Electric Company, Ltd.

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Takayuki Toba

Satoshi Arai

Hideo Sakurai

Nobuyoshi Sugiyama

Takashi Ohkuma

Shigeyuki Kawamura

Takanobu Mimura

Jun Ichii

Shinya Orimo

Tsutomu Inagaki

Yoshikazu Hirai

Data concerning a transfer pattern of a lamination transparent film is not externally sent and stored in a memory but is generated by a random pattern generating module of a color controlling DSP. A random number generating section generates a pseudorandom number for each dot of one line; a tone data obtaining section obtains tone data corresponding to the pseudorandom number; and a transferring section transfers the tone data to a head signal converting ASIC. Tone data for each dot of one line is alternately written in line buffers. Using the tone data written in the line buffers, a thermal head transfers transparent film.

Image forming apparatus and method for forming image

A disclosed information recording apparatus includes an erasing unit configured to erase prerecorded information on recording media capable of being colored and decolored by heat; a recording unit configured to record information on the recording media from which the prerecorded information is erased; and a control unit configured, when a recording request is received, to cause the recording unit to start recording information on a first one of the recording media and to cause the erasing unit to start erasing prerecorded information on a second one of the recording media.

Information recording apparatus and information recording method

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Mie, Japan

Takayuki Toba