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US 12,321,797 B2Granted
Image processing apparatus and image processing method with image rotation
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYoshitaka Hashimoto, Kazunori Hirabayashi
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Abstract
An image processing apparatus includes an interface and a processor. The interface acquires printing data including an image. If length in a longitudinal direction of the image is larger than a printing width of a medium on which the image is printed, the processor rotates the image.
Claims11
An image processing apparatus comprising:
- an interface configured to acquire printing data including an image;
- and
- a processor configured to:
- acquire a printing width of a medium wherein the medium is variable in width in a first direction and has a predetermined width in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and the printing width is the predetermined width in the second direction, wherein the medium is a label, and wherein the label is a sticker;
- rotate the image when a lateral width of the image acquired by the interface is larger than a longitudinal width of the image and the lateral width of the image is larger than the printing width of the medium on which the image is printed,
- when the lateral width of the image after rotation is greater than the printing width, reduce the image to fit the rotated image in the printing width of the medium,
- when the lateral width of the image after rotation is smaller than the printing width, enlarge the image to fit the rotated image in the printing width of the medium, and
- operate a print engine to draw out the medium in the first direction according to the longitudinal width of the rotated image, or
- when the lateral width of the image acquired by the interface is larger than the longitudinal width of the image and the lateral width of the image is smaller than the printing width of the medium on which the image is printed, enlarge the image to fit the image in the printing width of the medium without rotating the image, and
- operate the print engine to draw out the medium in the first direction according to the longitudinal width of the image without rotating the image.
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An image processing method executed by a processor, the image processing method comprising:
- acquiring, at an interface, printing data including an image;
- acquiring a printing width of a medium wherein the medium is variable in width in a first direction and has a predetermined width in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and the printing width is the predetermined width in the second direction, wherein the medium is a label, and wherein the label is a sticker;
- rotating the image if a lateral width of the image acquired by the interface is larger than a longitudinal width of the image and the lateral width of the image is larger than the printing width of the medium on which the image is printed;
- when the lateral width of the image after rotation is greater than the printing width, reducing the image to fit the rotated image in the printing width of the medium, and
- when the lateral width of the image after rotation is smaller than the printing width, enlarging the image to fit the rotated image in the medium,
- operating a print engine to draw out the medium in the first direction according to the longitudinal width of the rotated image, or
- when the lateral width of the image acquired by the interface is larger than the longitudinal width of the image and the lateral width of the image is smaller than the printing width of the medium on which the image is printed, enlarge the image to fit the image in the printing width of the medium without rotating the image, and
- operating the print engine to draw out the medium in the first direction according to the longitudinal width of the image without rotating the image.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.