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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 10, 1997
Hiroyasu Kurashina, Nagano, JP;
Takeshi Hosokawa, Nagano, JP;
Kenji Watanabe, Tokyo, JP;
Takanobu Kameda, Tokyo, JP;
Tomoyuki Shimmura, Tokyo, JP;
Chieko Aida, Tokyo, JP;
Other;
Abstract
There are provided a print image-forming method and device. Print image data of a dot matrix is formed in which print portions are represented by positive dots and blank portions are represented by negative dots. Basic image data formed in a manner such that when the basic image data is developed into a dot matrix, a group of image pixels formed by one of a set of positive dots and a set of negative dots is capable of representing a basic image, is read from a memory device. Developed image data item representative of the basic image is formed by developing the basic image data read from the memory device into a dot matrix which is smaller in size than the dot matrix of the print image data in at least one predetermined direction of a vertical direction and a horizontal direction. At least one shifted image data is formed by shifting the developed image data item by units of dots in the predetermine direction, and the print image data is formed by causing the developed image data item and the at least one shifted image data, to be superposed, upon one another, in a manner such that the group of image pixels overrides background pixels.