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US 6,198,840 B1Granted
Recording apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsShunya Mitsuhashi, Shuichi Kumada
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Abstract
A recording apparatus includes a color table for storing color information corresponding 1:1 to color information codes. The apparatus executes color recording by providing color information corresponding to the color information code, to the given character data or image data. The apparatus features a function of expanding the color information, and a function of confirming the color information.
Claims14
A recording apparatus comprising:
- memory means storing in advance color component values of basic colors and a plurality of word information indicating the color component values of the basic colors;
- and
- search means for receiving word information corresponding to colors to be used in recording, and extracting the component values of the basic colors, by using the received word information, from said memory means by keyword search.
A method for processing color information comprising steps of:
- storing in advance color component values of basic colors and a plurality of word information indicating the color component values of the basic colors in a memory;
- and
- receiving word information corresponding to colors to be used in recording, and extracting the component values of the basic colors, by using the received word information from the memory by keyword search.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.