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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:
Mar. 10, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 02, 1992
Applicant:
Inventor:
Shunya Mitsuhashi, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395101 ; 395114 ;
Abstract
An output apparatus such as a laser beam printer comprises: a storage medium to store a control code which is peculiar to a control program; a judging circuit to judge whether the peculiar code is included in input data or not; and a deciding circuit to decide that the control program having the peculiar code is made correspond to the input data. The control program comprises control codes. The input data includes the peculiar control code and character code. When an amount of input data is less than an amount of data which is needed to perform the judgment, the deciding means decides that a predetermined control program is made correspond to the input data.