Cut-out scanning system
AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
InventorsPhilip Ver Paloma Dabon, Neil-Paul Payoyo Bermundo
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Abstract
Methods and systems for identifying cut-out patterns from a scanned raw image file and arranging shapes within a document prior to printing cut-out patterns are described. A printing device may identify and group contents in a page of a print job as shapes to be cut out from the paper after they are printed. The printing device may then detect the grouped page contents as cut-out patterns. For each cut-out pattern, the printing device may detect the white spaces of content of the cut-out pattern and mark them as available for printing other cut-out patterns. Thus, the printing device may print multiple cut-out patterns on a same page based on using the white space within larger cut-out patterns.
Claims20
A printing system comprising:
- a printing device;
- and
- a scanning service in communication with the printing device and adapted to:
- receive a plurality of page description language (PDL)-formatted cut-out patterns;
- receive a reference to a logical page;
- detect white space in the plurality of PDL-formatted cut-out patterns by detecting areas with no color;
- optimally position the PDL-formatted cut-out patterns on the logical page, wherein the optimal positioning includes locating a PDL-formatted cut-out pattern, that fits within interior white space of another a PDL-formatted cut-out pattern, within the interior white space of the other a PDL-formatted cut-out pattern;
- and
- generate a PDL drawing command for each PDL-formatted cut-out pattern identifying an outline of the PDL-formatted cut-out pattern identifying where at least one of cutting and perforation will occur on the logical page.
A method for printing by a printing system, comprising the steps of:
- receiving a plurality of page description language (PDL)-formatted cut-out patterns;
- detecting white space in the plurality of PDL-formatted cut-out patterns by detecting areas with no color;
- optimally positioning the plurality of PDL-formatted cut-out patterns on a logical page, wherein the optimal positioning includes locating a PDL-formatted cut-out pattern, that fits within interior white space of another PDL-formatted cut-out pattern, within the white space of that PDL-formatted cut-out pattern;
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- generating a PDL drawing command for each PDL-formatted cut-out pattern identifying an outline of the PDL-formatted cut-out pattern identifying where at least one of cutting and perforation will occur on the logical page.
A method for printing by a printing system, comprising the steps of:
- receiving of raw image data;
- identifying cut-out patterns in the raw image data;
- creating image-formatted cut-out pattern data from the raw image data;
- converting the image-formatted cut-out pattern data to a plurality of PDL-formatted cut-out patterns;
- receiving a reference to a logical page;
- detecting white space in the plurality of PDL-formatted cut-out patterns by detecting areas with no color;
- optimally positioning the PDL-formatted cut-out patterns on the logical page, wherein the optimal positioning includes locating a PDL-formatted cut-out pattern, that fits within interior white space of another a PDL-formatted cut-out pattern, within the interior white space of the other a PDL-formatted cut-out pattern;
- and
- generating a PDL drawing command for each PDL-formatted cut-out pattern identifying an outline of the PDL-formatted cut-out pattern identifying where at least one of cutting and perforation will occur on the logical page.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.