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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:
Dec. 10, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 31, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 1/500 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 1/500 ;
Abstract
A print head driving apparatus is provided with an input terminal for inputting serial data which includes printing data and timing data put in the printing data, a printing data number control circuit for detecting the timing data, a shift register and a latch circuit for extracting the printing data from the serial data with the timing data used as a starting point, and a driving waveform selecting circuit for outputting a driving signal based on the printing data extracted from the shift register and latch circuit. With this constitution, no control signal for latching is needed.