公开(公告)号：US06866358B2

公开(公告)日：2005-03-15

申请号：US10214109

申请日：2002-08-08

申请人： Atsuhiko Masuyama ,  Hiroshi Tajika ,  Yuji Konno ,  Norihiro Kawatoko ,  Takayuki Ogasahara ,  Tetsuya Edamura

发明人： Atsuhiko Masuyama ,  Hiroshi Tajika ,  Yuji Konno ,  Norihiro Kawatoko ,  Takayuki Ogasahara ,  Tetsuya Edamura

IPC分类号： B41J2/01 ,  B41J2/21 ,  B41J2/505 ,  B41J11/00 ,  B41J29/38 ,  B41J29/393

CPC分类号： B41J2/5058 ,  B41J2/2132 ,  B41J11/0065

摘要： A contamination of a printing medium caused by ink mist or the like is suppressed, which may scatter or float in an apparatus when margin-less printing is carried out in an ink jet printer. When margin-less printing for an edge of a printing medium P is performed, a predetermined edge area {circle around (1)} is printed using a smaller number of ejection openings during one scanning operation than that used for other areas {circle around (2)} and {circle around (3)}, while taking transportation errors relating to this end into consideration. This reduces the amount of ink mist resulting from ink ejected out of the edge of the printing medium during one scanning operation.

摘要翻译： 抑制由墨雾等引起的打印介质的污染，当在喷墨打印机中进行无边距打印时，可能会在装置中分散或漂浮。 当执行打印介质P的边缘的无边距打印时，预定的边缘区域（在一个扫描操作期间使用较少数量的喷射开口打印1个圆周（与其他区域相同的圆圈（2和2） {圆周（3，同时考虑与此相关的运输错误），这减少了在一次扫描操作期间从打印介质的边缘喷出的墨所产生的墨雾量。

公开(公告)号：US06733100B1

公开(公告)日：2004-05-11

申请号：US09640085

申请日：2000-08-17

申请人： Miyuki Fujita ,  Hiroshi Tajika ,  Yuji Konno ,  Norihiro Kawatoko ,  Tetsuya Edamura ,  Tetsuhiro Maeda

发明人： Miyuki Fujita ,  Hiroshi Tajika ,  Yuji Konno ,  Norihiro Kawatoko ,  Tetsuya Edamura ,  Tetsuhiro Maeda

IPC分类号： B41J2938

CPC分类号： B41J2/2139 ,  B41J2/1752 ,  B41J2/17566 ,  B41J29/393

摘要： At least defective printing element information about a defective printing element among a plurality of printing elements is stored in an EEPROM. A complementary printing element for masking printing data corresponding to the defective printing element indicated by the defective printing element information and complementarily printing the printing data corresponding to the defective printing element is determined. The printing data of the defective printing element is printed using the determined complementary printing element.

摘要翻译： 关于多个打印元件中的有缺陷的打印元件的至少有缺陷的打印元件信息被存储在EEPROM中。 确定用于掩蔽对应于由有缺陷的打印元件信息指示的有缺陷的打印元件的打印数据并互补地打印与该有缺陷的打印元件对应的打印数据的补充打印元件。 使用确定的补充打印元件打印有缺陷的打印元件的打印数据。

公开(公告)号：US06629789B2

公开(公告)日：2003-10-07

申请号：US09791591

申请日：2001-02-26

申请人： Norihiro Kawatoko

发明人： Norihiro Kawatoko

IPC分类号： B41J530

CPC分类号： B41J2/04508 ,  B41J2/04558 ,  B41J2/04573 ,  B41J2/0458 ,  B41J2/04591 ,  B41J2/2128 ,  B41J29/393

摘要： A printing apparatus capable of easily setting driving conditions in consideration of conditions on the printing apparatus main body side as well at an arbitrary point of time is disclosed. The printing apparatus including a printhead having a plurality of print elements and a head driver for generating a pulse-like driving signal supplied to the printhead. The apparatus sets driving conditions for a printhead with test patterns obtained by simultaneously driving a predetermined number of print elements of the plurality of print elements are printed on the printing medium while the pulse width of the driving signal is decreased stepwise from a predetermined value. Then, the boundary value of a pulse width with which a print element is not properly driven is obtained from the test patterns, and the pulse width of a driving signal generated by the head driver is controlled on the basis of the boundary value.

摘要翻译： 公开了能够在任意时间点容易地考虑打印装置主体侧的状况来设定驾驶条件的打印装置。 该打印装置包括具有多个打印元件的打印头和用于产生提供给打印头的脉冲状驱动信号的头驱动器。 该装置将打印机的驱动条件设定为打印在打印介质上同时驱动预定数量的打印元件而获得的测试图案，同时驱动信号的脉冲宽度从预定值逐步降低。 然后，从测试图案获得印刷元件未正确驱动的脉冲宽度的边界值，并且基于边界值控制由头驱动器产生的驱动信号的脉冲宽度。

公开(公告)号：US06572212B2

公开(公告)日：2003-06-03

申请号：US09902596

申请日：2001-07-12

申请人： Yuji Konno ,  Miyuki Fujita ,  Shuichi Murakami ,  Michinari Mizutani ,  Norihiro Kawatoko ,  Takayuki Ogasahara ,  Tetsuya Edamura ,  Tetsuhiro Maeda

发明人： Yuji Konno ,  Miyuki Fujita ,  Shuichi Murakami ,  Michinari Mizutani ,  Norihiro Kawatoko ,  Takayuki Ogasahara ,  Tetsuya Edamura ,  Tetsuhiro Maeda

IPC分类号： B41J29393

CPC分类号： B41J2/04506 ,  B41J2/0458 ,  B41J2202/17

摘要： This invention relates to an ink-jet printer equipped with an ink-jet printhead and a control method and apparatus for the ink-jet printer. The printhead incorporates an EEPROM storing head information including the ink discharge amount characteristics of the printhead. The head information stored in this EEPROM is transmitted from the ink-jet printer having the printhead to the printer driver of a host computer. The printer driver then selects a gamma correction table in accordance with the head information. In this case, a gamma correction table is selected from a plurality of gamma correction tables in which pieces of correction information which make print densities uniform are stored in correspondence with ink discharge amounts. This table also includes correction data for correcting an increase in ink discharge amount to prevent beading due to an increase in ink discharge amount with a rise in the temperature of the printhead.

公开(公告)号：US06526516B1

公开(公告)日：2003-02-25

申请号：US09210255

申请日：1998-12-11

申请人： Hisashi Ishikawa ,  Hiroshi Tajika ,  Miyuki Fujita ,  Yuji Konno ,  Hiroo Inoue ,  Kenji Takahashi ,  Norihiro Kawatoko

发明人： Hisashi Ishikawa ,  Hiroshi Tajika ,  Miyuki Fujita ,  Yuji Konno ,  Hiroo Inoue ,  Kenji Takahashi ,  Norihiro Kawatoko

IPC分类号： G06F100

CPC分类号： H04L12/10 ,  G06F1/189 ,  G06F1/26

摘要： In a system to which a plurality of devices are connected, each device has heretofore required a connector for an AC adapter and a connector for a signal line. Further, in order to arrange it so that the amount of power supplied to the overall system will not exceed a limit value, it has been required to adjust the amount of power during system use by turning the power source of each device on or off. According to the present invention, a signal line for data transfer and a power line for supply of power in a system connecting a plurality of devices are consolidated in a single cable to make it possible to connect both lines to one connector of each device. The power controller of a certain device acquires the properties of a plurality of devices connected to this device, decides the optimum power distribution and controls the power controllers of each of the other devices.

摘要翻译： 在连接有多个设备的系统中，每个设备迄今为止需要用于AC适配器的连接器和用于信号线的连接器。 此外，为了将其配置为使得提供给整个系统的电力量不会超过限制值，需要通过打开或关闭每个设备的电源来调整系统使用期间的电力量。 根据本发明，用于数据传送的信号线和用于在连接多个设备的系统中供电的电力线被固定在单个电缆中，以使得可以将两条线连接到每个设备的一个连接器。 某个设备的功率控制器获取连接到该设备的多个设备的属性，确定最佳功率分配并控制每个其他设备的功率控制器。

公开(公告)号：US09114631B2

公开(公告)日：2015-08-25

申请号：US13407051

申请日：2012-02-28

申请人： Miyuki Fujita ,  Hiroshi Tajika ,  Yuji Konno ,  Shuichi Murakami ,  Norihiro Kawatoko ,  Takayuki Ogasahara ,  Tetsuya Edamura ,  Tetsuhiro Maeda

发明人： Miyuki Fujita ,  Hiroshi Tajika ,  Yuji Konno ,  Shuichi Murakami ,  Norihiro Kawatoko ,  Takayuki Ogasahara ,  Tetsuya Edamura ,  Tetsuhiro Maeda

IPC分类号： B41J29/38 ,  B41J29/393 ,  B41J2/21 ,  B41J19/14

CPC分类号： B41J2/2135 ,  B41J2/04573 ,  B41J2/04586 ,  B41J19/145

摘要： With an ink jet head having for each color two parallel columns of nozzles arranged shifted by one-half the pitch, odd-numbered rasters and even-numbered rasters are printed by the two nozzle columns. The registration between the odd- and even-numbered rasters is secured during the printing to produce a high quality image. The ink ejection timing between the two raster groups is shifted by a predetermined interval to form adjustment patterns; the adjustment patterns are checked and, according to the check result, an adjustment value for the ink ejection timing between the two ink nozzle columns is entered, and the entered adjustment value is stored to be reflected on the actual printing operation. To facilitate the adjustment pattern check, the adjustment patterns have a dot distribution with a blue noise characteristic at a resolution at which the printing apparatus can print.

摘要翻译： 对于每个颜色的喷墨头，两个平行的喷嘴排列偏移了一半的间距，奇数光栅和偶数光栅由两个喷嘴列打印。 奇数和偶数光栅之间的对准在打印期间得到保证，以产生高质量的图像。 两个光栅组之间的喷墨定时偏移预定间隔以形成调整图案; 检查调整图案，并且根据检查结果，输入两个墨水喷嘴列之间的墨水喷射正时的调节值，并且输入的调整值被存储以反映在实际打印操作上。 为了便于调整图案检查，调整图案具有在打印装置可以打印的分辨率下具有蓝色噪声特性的点分布。

公开(公告)号：US09016821B2

公开(公告)日：2015-04-28

申请号：US13459822

申请日：2012-04-30

申请人： Satoshi Masuda ,  Tomoki Yamamuro ,  Hitoshi Nishikori ,  Osamu Iwasaki ,  Norihiro Kawatoko ,  Atsuhiko Masuyama ,  Fumiko Suzuki ,  Nobuhiro Kitabatake ,  Mitsuhiro Ono

发明人： Satoshi Masuda ,  Tomoki Yamamuro ,  Hitoshi Nishikori ,  Osamu Iwasaki ,  Norihiro Kawatoko ,  Atsuhiko Masuyama ,  Fumiko Suzuki ,  Nobuhiro Kitabatake ,  Mitsuhiro Ono

IPC分类号： B41J2/195 ,  B41J2/155

CPC分类号： B41J2/195 ,  B41J2/155

摘要： Adequate correction processing is performed on image data based on the degree of ink concentration that occurs even. An image processing apparatus having: acquisition unit for acquiring multi-value image data and a first parameter related to the degree of concentration of ink; first generation unit for generating corrected data by correcting the multi-value data that is to be printed for the first pixel based on the multi-value data that is to printed in the first pixel and a first parameter; and second generation unit for generating the first parameter and a second parameter that indicates the degree of ink concentration of the plurality of nozzles when printing a second pixel that is printed by the nozzles next to the first pixel.

摘要翻译： 基于均匀发生的墨水浓度的图像数据进行适当的校正处理。 一种图像处理装置，具有：获取单元，用于获取多值图像数据和与墨水浓度相关的第一参数; 第一产生单元，用于通过基于要打印在第一像素中的多值数据和第一参数来校正要针对第一像素打印的多值数据来产生校正数据; 以及第二产生单元，用于产生第一参数;以及第二参数，第二参数指示当打印由第一像素旁边的喷嘴打印的第二像素时多个喷嘴的油墨浓度。

公开(公告)号：US08864266B2

公开(公告)日：2014-10-21

申请号：US13457730

申请日：2012-04-27

申请人： Fumiko Suzuki ,  Norihiro Kawatoko ,  Hitoshi Nishikori ,  Osamu Iwasaki ,  Atsuhiko Masuyama ,  Satoshi Masuda ,  Tomoki Yamamuro

发明人： Fumiko Suzuki ,  Norihiro Kawatoko ,  Hitoshi Nishikori ,  Osamu Iwasaki ,  Atsuhiko Masuyama ,  Satoshi Masuda ,  Tomoki Yamamuro

IPC分类号： B41J2/205 ,  B41J29/38 ,  B41J2/015 ,  B41J2/15 ,  B41J2/14 ,  B41J2/07 ,  B41J2/21 ,  G06K15/10 ,  B41J2/155

CPC分类号： B41J2/2125 ,  B41J2/155 ,  G06K15/102 ,  G06K2215/111

摘要： A printing device using a print head ejecting ink from a plurality of nozzles to print ink dots of a plurality of dot diameters, includes a print-characteristic acquisition unit obtaining print characteristic information on dot diameters of ink dots to be printed per each predetermined portion of the plurality of nozzles, a distribution ratio determination unit determining a distribution ratio for distributing image data to the predetermined portions of the plurality of nozzles based on the information, a dot print position determination unit quantizing the image data to determine a dot print position based on the image data and sizes and an array of thresholds; and a plurality of masks based on dot distribution order determined according to the distribution ratio, distributing printing of each of the ink dots of the plurality of dot diameters to the dot print position determined by the dot print position determination unit.

摘要翻译： 使用从多个喷嘴喷射墨水的打印头来打印多个点直径的墨点的打印装置包括：打印特征获取单元，获得关于每个预定部分打印的墨点的点直径的打印特性信息 所述多个喷嘴，分配比率确定单元，基于所述信息确定用于将图像数据分配到所述多个喷嘴的所述预定部分的分配比;点打印位置确定单元，对所述图像数据进行量化，以基于 图像数据和大小和阈值阵列; 以及基于根据分配比确定的点分布顺序的多个掩模，将多个点直径的每个墨点的打印分配到由点打印位置确定单元确定的点打印位置。

公开(公告)号：US08608271B2

公开(公告)日：2013-12-17

申请号：US12732764

申请日：2010-03-26

申请人： Yoshiaki Murayama ,  Yuji Konno ,  Hitoshi Nishikori ,  Norihiro Kawatoko ,  Yutaka Kano

发明人： Yoshiaki Murayama ,  Yuji Konno ,  Hitoshi Nishikori ,  Norihiro Kawatoko ,  Yutaka Kano

IPC分类号： B41J2/205

CPC分类号： B41J2/2132 ,  G06K15/107

摘要： A printing apparatus and a printing method are capable of not permitting a printable ratio of each printing scan to have a deviation and, even if a sudden conveyance shift occurs, outputting a uniform and smooth image in the whole area of the print medium. In order to achieve this, when performing multipass printing of 2M passes, a mask such that a printable area overlapping ratio that relates to straddling between Pass M and Pass M+1 is set higher than the printable area overlapping ratio that relates to straddling between two other consecutive passes is used. By this configuration, even if a complementary relationship of dots collapses due to a sudden conveyance shift or the like and thereby a density reduction is anticipated, by an overlapped dot being separated, increase of the density is accelerated, and it becomes possible to mitigate the above-mentioned density reduction.

摘要翻译： 打印装置和打印方法能够不允许每个打印扫描的可打印比率具有偏差，并且即使发生突然的输送偏移，在打印介质的整个区域中输出均匀且平滑的图像。 为了实现这一点，当进行2M遍的多次打印时，将与Pass M和Pass M + 1之间的跨越相关的可打印区域重叠比设置为高于与两个之间跨越的可打印区域重叠比的掩码 使用其他连续通行证。 通过这种结构，即使由于突然的输送移动等引起的点的互补关系崩溃，从而预期密度降低，通过分离的重叠点，加速了密度的增加，并且可以减轻 上述密度降低。

公开(公告)号：US20120287194A1

公开(公告)日：2012-11-15

申请号：US13459822

申请日：2012-04-30

申请人： Satoshi Masuda ,  Tomoki Yamamuro ,  Hitoshi Nishikori ,  Osamu Iwasaki ,  Norihiro Kawatoko ,  Atsuhiko Masuyama ,  Fumiko Suzuki ,  Nobuhiro Kitabatake ,  Mitsuhiro Ono

发明人： Satoshi Masuda ,  Tomoki Yamamuro ,  Hitoshi Nishikori ,  Osamu Iwasaki ,  Norihiro Kawatoko ,  Atsuhiko Masuyama ,  Fumiko Suzuki ,  Nobuhiro Kitabatake ,  Mitsuhiro Ono

IPC分类号： B41J2/205

CPC分类号： B41J2/195 ,  B41J2/155

摘要： Adequate correction processing is performed on image data based on the degree of ink concentration that occurs even. An image processing apparatus having: acquisition unit for acquiring multi-value image data and a first parameter related to the degree of concentration of ink; first generation unit for generating corrected data by correcting the multi-value data that is to be printed for the first pixel based on the multi-value data that is to printed in the first pixel and a first parameter; and second generation unit for generating the first parameter and a second parameter that indicates the degree of ink concentration of the plurality of nozzles when printing a second pixel that is printed by the nozzles next to the first pixel.

摘要翻译： 基于均匀发生的墨水浓度的图像数据进行适当的校正处理。 一种图像处理装置，具有：获取单元，用于获取多值图像数据和与墨水浓度相关的第一参数; 第一产生单元，用于通过基于要打印在第一像素中的多值数据和第一参数来校正要针对第一像素打印的多值数据来产生校正数据; 以及第二产生单元，用于产生第一参数;以及第二参数，第二参数指示当打印由第一像素旁边的喷嘴打印的第二像素时多个喷嘴的油墨浓度。