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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:
Oct. 13, 1998
Filed:
Aug. 26, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395101 ; 395102 ; 395110 ; 395107 ;
Abstract
An output method and apparatus is provided for storing first control information for controlling an output operation based on externally supplied data and for storing command information for commanding modification of the first control information to second control information that is different from the first control information, and for modifying the first control information to the second control information to control the output operation based on the second control information in accordance with the stored command information, wherein the output operation can be executed based on the first control information.