Patent · US Expired

Dot density conversion method and system

US5493420A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateFeb 13, 1990
Grant dateFeb 20, 1996
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Expiry dateFeb 13, 2010

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N1/40075
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

When dot density conversion processing of page data is effected by managing the position, size and data kind of each area for the page data including the portions which are formed as the data of different areas for at least two kinds of data of a plurality of data kinds each having at least one kind such as text data, graphic data, image data, and so forth, dot conversion means disposed for each area in such a manner as to correspond to each data kind is selected and conversion is made so that the result of conversion is drawn at a predetermined output position of each area.

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