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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. 30, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 01, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Koou Hiraike, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/500 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/500 ;
Abstract
A system, apparatus, and method for reducing overhead in processing due to increased memory occupation and compression procedures when registering a character image in a printer is disclosed. When transferring the character image to the printer, the character image is compressed in accordance with a characteristic of the character image. For example, the size, the frequency of use, or appearance of the character image, as well as the number of characters appearing in each page may be used as the characteristic. After being registered in the printer, a registered character can be printed only by transferring an identifier corresponding to the character to the printer.