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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 1997
Filed:
Mar. 27, 1996
Keiji Nakatani, Toyokawa, JP;
Masamichi Sugiura, Toyokawa, JP;
Munehiro Nakatani, Toyohashi, JP;
Shigenobu Fukushima, Yokohama, JP;
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
In the electronic sort of a digital copying machine, image data of a document consisting of a plurality of sheets are read and compressed to bi-level data in a memory. The compressed image data are recovered to multi-level data successively. When a plurality of copies of the document are produced, the recovery action is repeated by the number of the copies. In a facsimile machine combined with a digital copying machine, bi-level image data for the automatic reduction transmission are recovered first to multi-level image data, and the density of the multi-level image data is changed for the reduction. Then, the multi-level data are converted to bi-level data for facsimile transmission. In a digital two-color copying machine, multi-level image data of the second color of the two colors to be recorded later has to be synchronized to those of the other in correspondence to the delay of the recording time between the two colors. Then, the multi-level image data of the second color are converted to bi-level data in a delay memory in real time, and the bi-level data are read later from the delay memory and recovered to multi-level data.