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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:
Feb. 15, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 24, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hideo Honma, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358-118 ; 358-11 ;
Abstract
An apparatus has a high-resolution rasterizer for rasterizing a drawing object at a first resolution, and a low-resolution rasterizer for rasterizing a drawing object at a second resolution lower than the first resolution. When input image data includes drawing objects which overlap each other, a drawing object determination unit selects the rasterizer for each of the overlapping drawing objects on the basis of the attributes of the overlapping drawing objects.