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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2010
Tsuneo Kasai, Azumino, JP;
Hidekuni Moriya, Chino, JP;
Kenji Fukasawa, Cupertino, CA (US);
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A discharge defect detecting device including a sensor that reads image, which has been formed on a medium by moving nozzles relative to the medium in a relative movement direction and discharging a fluid, at a reading resolution lower than the resolution of an image data in the relative movement direction, based on the image data; a standard data forming unit that forms a standard data having the same resolution as the reading resolution in the relative movement direction, based on the image data; and a detecting unit that compares a plurality of the reading data pixels on the same row in the relative movement direction in the data read by the sensor with a plurality of standard data pixels each corresponding to the plurality of the reading data pixels in the standard data, to detect the discharge defects of the nozzles.