Pattern generator
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYutaka Murakami
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Abstract
A pattern generator comprising a memory for storing a plurality of regular character and sign patterns, an input device for receiving as image data a character and sign pattern in a document, a pattern recognition unit for recognizing the character and sign pattern in the image data that the input device has received, a converter for converting the character and sign pattern recognized by the recognition into to the corresponding character and sign code, and an output device for reading from the memory a character and sign pattern corresponding to the character and sign code generated by the converter and outputting the read pattern to a recording medium.
Claims9
A pattern generator comprising:
- input means for receiving a character pattern of a first dot density, the character pattern existing at a designated area;
- conversion means for converting the character pattern of the first dot density received by said input means into a character pattern of a second dot density;
- means for setting character code data corresponding to the character pattern of the second dot density converted by said conversion means;
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- means for storing the character pattern of the second dot density converted by said conversion means in correspondence with the character code data set by said setting means.
A pattern generator comprising:
- input means for receiving a character pattern of a first number of dots;
- conversion means for converting the pattern of the first number of dots received by said input means into a character pattern of a second number of dots;
- means for setting character code data corresponding to the character pattern of the second number of dots converted by said conversion means;
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- means for storing the character pattern of the second number of dots converted by said conversion means in correspondence with the character code data set by said setting means.
An information processing system comprising:
- input means for inputting image data of a first dot density;
- extracting means for extracting a character pattern from the input image data, the character pattern existing at a designated area;
- conversion means for converting the character pattern of the first dot density extracted by said extracting means into a character pattern of a second dot density;
- means for setting character code data corresponding to the character pattern of the second dot density converted by said conversion means;
- means for storing the character pattern of the second dot density converted by said conversion means in correspondence with the character code data set by said setting means;
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- output means for outputting, in response to input of code data, the character pattern stored in said storage means in correspondence with the input code data.
A printer comprising:
- input means for receiving a character pattern of a first dot density, the character pattern existing at a designated area;
- conversion means for converting the character pattern of the first dot density received by said input means into a character pattern of a second dot density;
- means for setting character code data corresponding to the character pattern of the second dot density converted by said conversion means;
- means for storing the character pattern of the second dot density converted by said conversion means in correspondence with the character code data set by said setting means;
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- printing means printing, in response to input of code data, the character pattern stored in said storage means in correspondence with the input code data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.