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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2000
Hitoshi Hayama, Shiojiri, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A printer block is capable of outputting synthesized images such that the synthesized images are recognizable, each of the synthesized images being synthesized from image elements. A display is capable of outputting any of the image elements such that the any of the image elements is recognizable only when the display outputs the any of the image elements separately. The image elements of each of the synthesized images are stored, in a non-synthesized state, with a predetermined one of the image elements being set to a representative image element that symbolizes a corresponding one of the synthesized images. The display is caused to output, in place of any one of the synthesized images, the representative image corresponding to the any one of the synthesized images.