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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 1991
Filed:
Feb. 22, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364519 ; 3649641 ;
Abstract
An image forming device is provided with a memory area assignment system for assigning a font load area for storing font data and a bit map area for storing image data in the memory area with a predetermined capacity, and when a part of the memory area defined to be assigned for the bit map area is overlapped on a part of the font load area, it is judged whether or not the font data stored in the overlapped area is a secondary data which can be recovered by converting a primary data, and in case in font data is a secondary data, the overlapped area is assigned for the bit map area.