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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:
Apr. 03, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 01, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Minoru Akiyama, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/403 ; H04N 1/23 ; G06K 1/502 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/403 ; H04N 1/23 ; G06K 1/502 ;
Abstract
In a control method for image data including binary image data and multilevel image data, line information is attached to line print data for each of lines forming the image data and then the line information and the line print data are stored for each line in a memory. The line information is used to determine whether a data block included in the line print data is one of a binary image data block and a multilevel image data block. The binary image data block and the multilevel image data block for each line are processed according to the line information so as to produce a printed image of the image data.