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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:
Dec. 14, 1999
Filed:
Oct. 16, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hiroharu Takahashi, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395116 ; 395115 ; 395102 ;
Abstract
In an output method and output apparatus, one page of text data is divided into portions corresponding to bands of the print image of the page. Each portion of data is serially developed as a high-density image (600 dpi) on a bit map memory, and then is serially printed. One page of graphic data is, as a whole, developed as a low-density image (300 dpi) on the bit map memory. The low-density image is smoothed before output.