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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. 03, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 27, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Tsuneaki Kurumida, Kawasaki, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
400 76 ; 345144 ; 345470 ;
Abstract
An output device has storage means for storing a compressed font, representing characters by compressed data corresponding to dot patterns, a first generation unit for generating dot patterns based on the compressed data, and a second generation unit for generating outline information of characters from the compressed data and then generating dot patterns. The first generation unit or the second generation unit is selected in accordance with an output condition.