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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:
May. 12, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2004
Applicant:
Hirowo Inoue, Kawasaki, JP;
Inventor:
Hirowo Inoue, Kawasaki, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A printing apparatus, a printing system, and a prediction method of the usage of a printing agent can be configured to predict, prior to a processing for developing a printing image, the usage of a printing agent required for the printing. In order to do so, layout information is firstly analyzed prior to a processing for developing a printing image, thereby calculating an area in which object information arranged based on the layout information is printed. Then, based on the calculated printing area, the usage of the printing agent required for printing the object information is predicted.