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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:
Sep. 14, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2003
Applicant:
Masayuki Yoshida, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Masayuki Yoshida, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 15/02 (2006.01); G06F 17/21 (2006.01); G06K 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A document printing control apparatus determines, when an output paper size is set by a keyboard operation, block sizes of individual blocks from the output paper size. The apparatus determines the size of an output area and font size from the block sizes determined, and places the output area and characters with the sizes determined. After placing the characters in the output area, followed by editing a layout, the apparatus places the output area and characters according to the edited layout. The apparatus can carry out the scaling of the sizes of the output area and font according to the sizes of the output area and font determined.