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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.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2014

Filed:

Oct. 26, 2012
Applicant:

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;

Inventors:

Sung-myun Lee, Seoul, KR;

Jin-tae Chung, Gunpo, KR;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/12 (2006.01); G06K 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/1208 (2013.01); G06F 3/1247 (2013.01); G06F 3/1285 (2013.01);
Abstract

A print control terminal device, which is connected to an image forming apparatus, includes: a User Interface (UI) unit which receives a print command for a target document; a printer driver unit which detects a transparency region, which is a region to which transparency is applied, from the target document by analyzing one or more rendering commands for each object included in the target document, and generates print data by inserting transparency information into pixel data corresponding to the detected transparency region; and a communication interface unit which transmits the generated print data to the image forming apparatus.


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