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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 1996
Filed:
May. 23, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Keiichi Ikeda, Yokohama, JP;
Yoshiyuki Mizoguchi, Kawasaki, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
40012007 ; 40012001 ; 347183 ;
Abstract
In a thermal recording method of recording an image on a recording medium and a thermal recording apparatus using this thermal recording method, image data is divided into blocks in units of a plurality of bits to convert the blocks into recording head drive data, and a pulse width of a strobe signal corresponding to each bit of the converted drive data and a count of drive data arrays applied to a head are controlled to perform halftone image recording.