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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:
Aug. 17, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 14, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J / ; H04N / ; G03G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
347248 ; 358298 ; 395114 ; 399301 ; 347116 ;
Abstract
An image forming method includes the steps of compressing input image data and coding the input image data in block units, each block unit corresponding to a plurality of pixels. The method also includes storing the image data coded in the coding step in block units in a storing means, forming an image according to image data from the storing step, and correcting positional deviations of the image formed in the image forming step in units smaller than the block units.