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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:
Aug. 21, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 23, 1997
Yoshiharu Kurozasa, Yokohama, JP;
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An external computer is connected to a main control unit of a copying machine via a control unit. The external computer starts a mode setting application and transmits various commands to the control unit. A ROM of the control unit stores a translation program and programs for data processing which cannot be performed by the copying machine. A CPU of the control unit reads necessary programs from the ROM, translates commands sent from the external computer, and transmits the translated commands to the main control unit to perform a designated copy mode. The control unit itself performs data processing which cannot be performed by the main control unit so that various copy modes are available.
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