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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5168292 | Method and apparatus for forming image color There is disclosed an apparatus comprising: an input circuit for inputting at least one of the coded character information, coded figure information, and bit image information; a memory to store an image; an image developing circuit for developing the inf... | 12/01/1992 |
| 5163123 | Synchronously transferring image data to a printer In an image forming apparatus for receiving image data sent from an external apparatus and forming an image of dot image data on a printing paper, there is provided a bit map memory for storing dot image data of one page and a buffer memory for storing do... | 11/10/1992 |
| 5159681 | Page printer memory allocation A memory management system for a page printer controller (11) which includes random access memory (17) allocated among bit map memory (30), page buffer memory (29), and user memory (28). The memory management system allocates the random access memory to p... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5156468 | Pattern duplication in label printer's memory A label printer comprises a frame memory for storing a printing pattern for a label to be printed, and a printer unit for printing a label in accordance with the printing pattern stored in the frame memory. The label printer further comprises a control un... | 10/20/1992 |
| 5148293 | Image forming apparatus containing erasable font pattern The image forming apparatus includes a receiver for successively receiving image data from an external device, a first memory for storing a basic font pattern, a second memory including a first memory area for storing a modified font pattern obtained by m... | 09/15/1992 |
| 5146547 | Printer buffer and rasterization arrangement A page printer (101) which rasterizes a page utilizing partial page bit map swaths. Received data to be printed is stored in packets (12-17) in a page buffer in random access memory (105). Data within each packet is arranged in printing order down the pag... | 09/08/1992 |
| 5136688 | Print data processing apparatus for an image forming apparatus There is disclosed a print data processing apparatus for an image forming apparatus for receiving print data from an external unit, converting the received print data into dot image data at every one of bands defined by dividing an image area of one page,... | 08/04/1992 |
| 5125072 | Efficient data storage system for gray-scale printers Apparatus and method for producing a page output from electronic input data consisting of text and line graphics information and of pictorial information. The text and graphics information is converted to two-bit per pixel data and stored in a page buffer... | 06/23/1992 |
| 5115493 | Continuous laser printer for printing over page boundaries Central processing unit, responsive to the commands and print data signals, selectively stores the reference pattern signals from a pattern memory into a page memory. The central processing unit provides the first page pattern signal stored in the page me... | 05/19/1992 |
| 5093904 | Printing device having time counting means to control printing from page buffer In a printing device, all the print data is printed out without any print command when a predetermined time is counted after a reception buffer has run out of data. It is also possible to ensure an error-free, proper automatic print operation by providing... | 03/03/1992 |
| 5084831 | Printer and printing method A new printer having a memory for storing dot image data to be printed, wherein two modes, that is, a full bit map mode for storing a page of data and a strip map mode for a smaller size of data than a page of data is stored alternately in two memory area... | 01/28/1992 |
| 5060168 | Method and apparatus for controlling raster scan printer A control apparatus for a raster scan printer has a bit map memory for storing bit information corresponding to print dots, input means for writing the bit information into the bit map memory, sending means for reading the bit information from the bit map... | 10/22/1991 |
| 5058037 | Method and apparatus for controlling printer In a printer controller which receives a command series containing a drawing command for instructing a drawing operation, and also a printing command for instructing a printing operation, the command series being transmitted from a host computer, there ar... | 10/15/1991 |
| 5048831 | Electronic game apparatus and method of use The present invention provides a hand held electronic game apparatus useable by a single player, but also useable for direct competitive play between two or more players through both direct physical linkage of multiple units of the apparatus and indirect ... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5047955 | Electronic collation An electronic printer receives multi-page documents as character code signals which are applied to a raster image processor for rasterization. The rasterized signals are electronically stored so that a plurality of electronically collated, multi-page sets... | 09/10/1991 |
| 5023813 | Non-volatile memory usage A page printer including a print engine (15) and a controller (11) which includes a non-volatile memory (16) having an EEPROM (17) and a chip RAM (18). A microprocessor (12) under program control manages the placement of data in the EEPROM (17) of the non... | 06/11/1991 |
| 5003496 | Page memory control in a raster image processor A raster image processor for an all points addressable marking engine includes a page memory having a data input and a write enable input. Halftone tints are applied to bit maps of objects stored in the page memory by applying a tint bit pattern to the da... | 03/26/1991 |
| 5001653 | Merging plotter graphics within a text environment on a page printer A printer receives and stores coded text character data (22, 23) and also receives graphic image commands in the same datastream. The printer creates a raster image (24) of the graphic image commands and stores the resultant raster image. When rasterizing... | 03/19/1991 |
| 4992958 | Method and apparatus for controlling printer In a printer controller which receives a command series containing a drawing command for instructing a drawing operation, and also a printing command for instructing a printing operation, the command series being transmitted from a host computer, there ar... | 02/12/1991 |
| 4984182 | Laser printer controller flexible frame buffer achitecture which allows software to initiate the loading of a frame buffer start address The present invention relates to a frame buffer used by a laser printer controller to send video signals to a laser printer engine. The frame buffer allows software to have sufficient control of the dimension of the buffer and to have sufficient time to p... | 01/08/1991 |
| 4979131 | Printer apparatus A printer apparatus is provided with a frame memory for storing a printing pattern, a printing head driven in accordance with the printing pattern stored in the frame memory, and a processor for producing a plurality of graphic patterns in the frame memor... | 12/18/1990 |
| 4958299 | Control device for use with a drawing output unit A control device for use with a drawing output unit, which selects from a plurality of image data stored in an image memory, corresponding to a set of drawings of various sizes, image data of a set of drawings whose size matches an output size of paper pr... | 09/18/1990 |
| 4949190 | Collation of buffered multi-page documents The number of pages of a multi-page document which can be stored in a buffer memory, when one or more of the pages of the document is substantially non-compressible, is increased by the invention. A machine, which is adapted to reproduce multi-page docume... | 08/14/1990 |
| 4929099 | Multi-line serial printer A predetermined window height at least three times the height of the normal printed characters can be printed in a single horizontal sweep of the printhead across the page. A page of character oriented data is first sorted vertically; the data is then seq... | 05/29/1990 |
| 4893257 | Multidirectional scan and print capability A character generator with multidirectional scan and variable line and character (or symbol) size capability is disclosed. Universality is implemented by producing a serial binary stream which can be used to print or display in any of eight combinations o... | 01/09/1990 |
| 4860219 | High speed printer An electronic printing system for printing digitally stored images which achieves extremely high throughputs as a consequence of control of the addressing of various memory sections being allocated to hardware assist units which operate independently of t... | 08/22/1989 |
| 4860110 | Communication terminal device A communication terminal device comprises a memory capable storing a plurality of pages of received information, and a printer for printing the information stored in the memory. A read sequence from the memory to the printer is determined in accordance wi... | 08/22/1989 |
| 4829468 | Print control system A print control system for controlling a computer system comprising a processing unit, a memory unit, a display unit, an input unit and a printer. The memory unit has print request blocks each for storing information necessary for printing a document, and... | 05/09/1989 |
| 4825386 | Horizontal line processor of data to be printed dot sequentially A horizontal line processor for loading print instruction commands into selected locations in a full page bit map memory. The horizontal line processor includes: a font memory for storing bit representations of print instruction commands; a means for rece... | 04/25/1989 |
| 4814756 | Video display control system having improved storage of alphanumeric and graphic display data A system for displaying alphanumeric and graphic information on a raster scanned display device, for example, in a teletext system, includes a memory which is updated to change the display. Dynamic changes in the displayed image are provided by assigning ... | 03/21/1989 |
| 4811242 | Chinese character printer controlling device A controller for a Chinese character printer, or the like, includes a pattern buffer into which character pattern data is written by an input control unit transferring the character pattern data from a temporary input buffer. The character pattern data is... | 03/07/1989 |
| 4809216 | Print engine data interface A print engine data interface for sequentially accessing locations in a full page bit map for either retrieving the data therein and forwarding it to a print engine for subsequent printing, or for issuing a refresh command to refresh the data. A bit map a... | 02/28/1989 |
| 4745560 | Method of controlling a bit-image printer A bit-image printer is disclosed, having a page memory, a font memory and a font library. Fonts are selected from the library for use in composing a page image in the page memory. Loading of font characters into the page memory is controlled by the positi... | 05/17/1988 |
| 4729107 | Pattern data conversion processing system In a pattern data conversion processing system, one-character pattern data generated by a character generator is divided by a shift register into a plurality of basic pattern data. The divided basic pattern data are sequentially subjected to enlargement, ... | 03/01/1988 |
| 4710821 | Image recording apparatus An image recording apparatus has a memory for storing a plurality of image data, a read-out section for reading out a predetermined number of image data to be recorded from the memory in order to display them in substantially the same order as that for re... | 12/01/1987 |
| 4581710 | Method of editing dot pattern data for character and/or image representations For the layout of a page, text and image blocks with data for positioning them on the page are supplied to the data processing system. The image blocks contain pattern information and the text blocks character codes. The pattern information for the characters ... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4571069 | Recording apparatus A recording apparatus has a printer mechanism for printing images successively on sheets of copying paper, and an image control circuit for delivering image information controllably to the printer mechanism so as to enable the latter to print the images s... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4449199 | Ultrasound scan conversion and memory system Imaging information characterizable as a pixel grid or matrix of 256 image columns and 512 image rows is supplied by a scanning transducer means delivering a series of ray lines of information where each ray corresponds to an image column. The incoming pi... | 05/15/1984 |
| 4078249 | Digital display composition system A stand-alone, interactive processor and display system for displaying, performing positioning, sizing, and performing supportive composition functions for newspaper ad layout. Interactive work stations position copy, edit and correct text, adjust style a... | 03/07/1978 |
| 4000486 | Full page, raster scan, proportional space character generator A character generator for full page, raster scan printing is controlled to sequentially generate parts of different characters in a single scan. Further the character generation control independently stores for each row of text to be generated, the order ... | 12/28/1976 |
