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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 1991
Filed:
Apr. 14, 1989
Yasunori Kobori, Yokohama, JP;
Hiroyuki Kimura, Kanagawa, JP;
Kentaro Hamma, Katsuta, JP;
Toshihiko Gotoh, Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A video printer comprises a main memory unit for storing data of a first picture, a sub-memory for storing data for an overlay region to be overlaid on the first picture and also indicative of a second picture to be displayed in the overlay region, a memory data processing unit for generating a synthesized picture by selectively controlling the picture data for the overlay region on the basis of the data stored in the sub-memory, a system control circuit for controlling the data storage in the main memory unit, the data storage in the sub-memory circuit and operation of the memory data processing circuit, and a print circuit for producing a hard copy on the basis of the output of the memory data processing circuit.