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Image forming apparatus, control method, and storage medium

US8780403B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJun 11, 2009
Grant dateJul 15, 2014
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Expiry dateMar 27, 2032

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N1/387
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An image forming apparatus specifies as a blank area an area where a drawing object different from a latent image and a copy-forgery-inhibited pattern background image is removed from a copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image in a first page when printing is instructed, and lays out a drawing object of a second page in the specified blank area.

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