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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:
Nov. 30, 1999
Filed:
Feb. 11, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Shunichi Shido, Sagamihara, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
386 46 ; 386124 ;
Abstract
An information processing apparatus for scanning a recording medium by means of a probe and recording and reading information by means of a physical interaction occurring between the recording medium and the probe, including, a device for generating a plurality of sets of image information with different resolutions from input image information, a device for successively recording the sets of of image information in a predetermined order on the medium, and a device for reading only a reproduction-necessary region on the recording medium, according to a resolution demanded, upon reproduction of the image information.