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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2019
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Isao Takahashi, Tokyo, JP;
Nobukazu Hirai, Tokyo, JP;
Satoko Asaoka, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsunari Hoshi, Tokyo, JP;
Taichi Takeuchi, Tokyo, JP;
Eikichi Shibata, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A drawing and erasing apparatus includes a light source section that includes a plurality of laser elements different from each other in emission wavelength, a multiplexer that multiplexes a plurality of types of laser light beams outputted from the plurality of laser elements, a scanner section that performs scanning with multiplexed light outputted from the multiplexer on a reversible recording medium including a plurality of recording layers, the plurality of recording layers being reversible and different from each other in developed color hue, and a controller that controls a main scanning speed and a sub-scanning speed of the scanner section to cause the scanner section to perform overlapping scanning of a predetermined region on the reversible recording medium during erasure of information written on the reversible recording medium.