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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:
Jul. 04, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 10, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Naoji Shibasaki, Tokyo-to, JP;
Assignee:
Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd., Tokyo-to, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; B41J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
347172 ;
Abstract
In order to prevent deformation in recorded images, positional misregistration in superposition recording, hue misregistration in color images, failures in hue repeatability, and the like in thermal transfer recording, there are provided a method and apparatus for thermal transfer recording, in which corrected image data are obtained by performing enlargement or contraction of image data depending on dimension changes caused in a recording medium if thermal transfer recording is performed, and the thermal transfer recording is performed on the recording medium based on the corrected image data.