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US 4,707,713 AGranted
Image recording apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsNaoki Ayata, Seiji Saito, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Kunitaka Ozawa, Noboru Koumura
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Abstract
An image recording apparatus having a mechanism for registering at least one recording mode, for example a frequently-used basic mode or a color mode, and having a mechanism for setting another mode to be used for recording in a particular instance. In another aspect, the apparatus has a mechanism for setting a respective recording mode for each of a plurality of image areas, which areas can themselves be designated.
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An image recording apparatus comprising:
- means for setting a color recording mode for a desired color image recording;
- means for registering different color recording modes set from said setting means;
- means for selecting one of the plurality of color recording modes registered in said registering means;
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- means for recording a color image on a recording material in accordance with the color recording mode read out from said registering means based on selection by said selecting means.
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An image recording apparatus comprising:
- mode setting means for setting a color recording mode for a desired color image recording in accordance with a predetermined procedure;
- mode registering means for registering a plurality of color recording modes;
- mode selecting means for selecting one of said plurality of color recording modes registered in said mode registering means;
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- recording means for recording a color image on a recording material in accordance with the color recording mode set by said mode setting means or the color recording mode selected by said selecting means.
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An image recording apparatus comprising:
- means for discriminating an arbitrarily specified image area of an original;
- means for setting mutually different color image recording modes for the specified image area and an image area other than the specified image area;
- means for graphically displaying the respective color image modes recording for every image area in accordance with the mode setting by said setting means;
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- means for recording on a recording material the images for the image area discriminated by said discriminating means and the image area other than the specified image area with mutually different colors in accordance with the mutually different color image recording modes set by said mode setting means.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.