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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. 01, 1997
Filed:
Mar. 14, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Masaki Nishiyama, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395110 ;
Abstract
There is disclosed an output apparatus comprising a storage having a submatrix obtained by means of dividing a character set where one character being formed of bit patterns of M rows by N columns into M1 rows by N1 columns for each character, an indexing submatrix group where different patterns in said submatrix are indexed and aligned, and an indexing number storing area for storing numbers used for looking up the indexing submatrix; and a control unit for making the indexing number storing area have a variable length.