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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. 05, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 27, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Masakatsu Sakurai, Kawasaki, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382113 ; 382194 ; 382305 ; 395851 ; 711113 ;
Abstract
A figure, including characters, is developed into a plurality of figure patterns of figure shapes, and the plurality of developed figure patterns are registered, and a figure is drawn based on the selected registered figure pattern. Thereby it is possible to process not only a character but also a figure pattern by using a cache memory efficiently. As a result, high speed drawing can be performed.