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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 1997
Filed:
Feb. 27, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kaoru Nakabayashi, Suwa, JP;
Assignee:
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ; G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382318 ; 358450 ; 382284 ; 382294 ;
Abstract
A two-dimensional coded character string linker for eliminating duplications when first and second two-dimensional coded character string files partially overlap each other, by automatically deleting the duplicated coded character data from one file, and linking the two-dimensional coded character string files. In order to achieve this object, in the two-dimensional file linker of this invention, any duplications between a first file written into a first memory and a second file written into a second memory are identified by an aligner. A linking element removes any duplication, and links the first and second files as one two-dimensional coded character string file.