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US 10,853,002 B2Granted
Filling blank areas on a page with print data for printing
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMichiko Fujiwara
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AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMichiko Fujiwara
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Provided is an image forming apparatus including an operation processor with which a user performs a predetermined input operation, a print information acquirer that acquires print information, a blank area detector that detects a blank area in the acquired print information, a keyword acquirer that acquires a predetermined number of keywords from text information included in the acquired print information, a related candidate information acquirer that acquires related candidate information related to the acquired keywords from a search range preset in predetermined search range information, a related information combiner that generates a combined image in which related information selected using the operation processor from the acquired related candidate information is combined with the blank area of the acquired print information, and a combined image printing processor that prints the generated combined image on a predetermined printing sheet.
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
A print information generation method in an image forming apparatus, comprising:
A print information generation method in an image forming apparatus, comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.