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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 26, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Shunya Mitsuhashi, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 1/500 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 1/500 ;
Abstract
Print information to be printed by a printing apparatus is generated in response to a print request command, and coordinate information representing a plotting area of a generated print object is registered in a registration area. When a character string is printed, the registered coordinate information is compared with character-string print position information and whether or not there is overlap is determined. The type of processing for printing the character string is switched based upon the results of the determination, and it is possible to set a print processing mode that is optimum for a print object.