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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 28, 1999
Omron Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
A computer ( ) has a function of controlling operation of an image recognition unit ( ) for counterfeiting prevention in a printer ( ). According to this function, a control signal (S ) for instructing operation of the image recognition unit is output to the printer when the type of a command (C ) received from an application ( ) is a command type of an image as an object of counterfeiting prevention, while the control signal is not output when the type of the received command is not the command type of an image as an object of counterfeiting prevention. The printer has a function of operating the image recognition unit for image data (D ) applied from the computer only when the control signal is received from the computer. Therefore, in a print system using the computer and the printer equipped with the image recognition unit for counterfeiting prevention, the probability of falsely recognizing even an image irrelevant to counterfeiting to be an image as an object of counterfeiting prevention is lowered, and the printing-out speed is improved as a whole.