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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2000
Akira Ito, Fukuoka, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
For preventing the occurrence of disjunction among a plurality of images in the magnification index in the main scanning direction, image data delivered from an external device through an input image data connector are converted by a P/S converter into serial data from parallel data, and then stored into a memory by a write controller. When the image data are cached, a read controller starts reading the image data. At the same time, a computation means starts counting time based on information set at a setting means by an external central processing unit. As soon as it reaches the initial insert interval, the read controller suspends reading of image data out of the memory to insert virtual data pixel. In the same procedure, the read controller inserts virtual data pixel at each of the insert intervals counted by the computation means. Image data that have undergone the above processing are delayed by a position correction means to have the plurality of image data aligned to a right positioning, and then transmitted through an output image data connector to an external image generator for printing.