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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:
Jan. 29, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hirokatsu Shimada, Machida, JP;
Assignee:
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 1/501 ; H04N 1/60 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 1/501 ; H04N 1/60 ;
Abstract
Technology for controlling consumables for color printers to prevent the mere recording agent of a specific color from being excessively consumed. In this technology, when the printer is used, the system detects the residual ink volume of each color, and replaces an original color with another color by performing color conversion (image synthesis) on an image data by means of a prescribed processing method if a biased ink consumption exceeds a prescribed value, thus restricting the use of the particular ink before it is used up.