Nail print apparatus and printing method thereof
AssigneeCasio Computer Co., Ltd.
InventorShuichi Yamasaki
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Abstract
A nail print apparatus, including: a print head which performs printing on a nail of a finger or a nail of a toe; an unprinted region detecting unit which detects an unprinted region on which a nail design is not printed in the nail having a printed region on which the nail design is printed, the unprinted region being generated by growth of the nail after the nail design is printed; and a printing control unit which controls the print head to perform printing on the unprinted region.
Claims16
A nail print apparatus, comprising:
- a placement surface on which a finger or a toe is placed;
- a print head which performs printing on a surface of a nail of the finger or the toe, the surface of the nail corresponding to a surface side that is opposite a side contacting the placement surface;
- an unprinted region detecting unit which detects an unprinted region on the surface of the nail based on an image obtained by photographing the nail from the surface side, the surface of the nail including a printed region on which a nail design is printed and the unprinted region on which the nail design is not printed and generated by growth of the nail after the nail design is printed;
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- a printing control unit which controls the print head to perform printing on the unprinted region.
A printing method of a nail print apparatus including a placement surface on which a finger or a toe is placed, the method comprising:
- detecting an unprinted region on a surface of the nail of the finger or the toe based on an image obtained by photographing the nail from a surface side of the nail that is opposite a side contacting the placement surface, the surface of the nail including a printed region on which a nail design is printed and the unprinted region on which the nail design is not printed and generated by growth of the nail after the nail design is printed;
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- printing on the unprinted region.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.