Printing apparatus, printing method and non-transitory storage medium
AssigneeCasio Computer Co., Ltd.
InventorShigeto Suzuki
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Abstract
A printing apparatus includes: a printer head that prints, in accordance with a movement of the printing apparatus by a user within a printing region of a printing medium, a print-target image on the printing medium; a plurality of sensors each capable of sensing a displacement of the printing apparatus; and a processor that determines, based on the displacement sensed by the sensor, a position of the printing apparatus relative to the printing region, and switches, among the plurality of sensors, a sensing state of a sensor that is sensing the displacement and a sensing state of a sensor that is not sensing the displacement, in accordance with the determined position of the printing apparatus.
Claims16
A printing apparatus comprising:
- a printer head that prints, in accordance with a movement of the printing apparatus by a user within a printing region of a printing medium, a print-target image on the printing medium;
- a plurality of sensors each capable of sensing a displacement of the printing apparatus;
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- a processor that
- determines, based on the displacement sensed by the sensor, a position of the printing apparatus relative to the printing region, and
- switches, among the plurality of sensors, a sensing state of a sensor that is sensing the displacement and a sensing state of a sensor that is not sensing the displacement, in accordance with the determined position of the printing apparatus.
A printing apparatus comprising:
- a printer head that prints, in accordance with a movement of the printing apparatus by a user within a printing region of a printing medium, a print-target image on the printing medium;
- a plurality of sensors each creating data on a displacement of the printing apparatus in accordance with each sensing result;
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- a processor determining the displacement, wherein
- the processor determines a position of the printing apparatus relative to the printing region based on the data on the displacement sensed by the sensor, and
- changes the plurality of sensors so as to stop utilizing the data newly created from the sensor that is creating the data utilized by the processor to determine the displacement, and to start utilizing, for a determination on the displacement by the processor, the data newly created from the sensor that is creating the data not utilized, in accordance with the determined position of the printing apparatus.
A printing method of a printing apparatus comprising:
- sensing a displacement of the printing apparatus within a printing region of a printing medium;
- determining a position of the printing apparatus relative to the printing region based on the sensed displacement;
- changing the first sensor that is sensing so as to be deactivated, and changing the second sensor that is not sensing while the first sensor is sensing so as to execute the sensing, in accordance with the determined position of the printing apparatus;
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- printing a print-target image in accordance with a position of the printing apparatus within the printing region.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program of a printing apparatus, the program causing a computer to:
- cause a first sensor to sense a displacement of the printing apparatus within a printing region of a printing medium;
- determine a position of the printing apparatus relative to the printing region based on the sensed displacement;
- change the first sensor that is sensing so as to be deactivated, and change the second sensor that is not sensing while the first sensor is sensing so as to execute the sensing, in accordance with the determined position of the printing apparatus;
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- print a print-target image in accordance with a position of the printing apparatus within the printing region.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.