Abstract:
There are provided a method and apparatus for forming a three-dimensional image. The method and apparatus adjust the density in consideration of the influence of the expansion of a thermally expandable layer on the density of a display color or a color development state so that the originally planned density of the display color can be achieved, on the surface of a thermally expandable sheet. The method and apparatus form a mirror image of a colored image, of which the density of a black component is adjusted so as to correspond to the bulge height of the thermally expandable layer, on the back of the thermally expandable sheet. The method and apparatus expand the thermally expandable layer when irradiating the thermally expandable layer with light, which includes infrared wavelengths, from the back of the thermally expandable sheet.
Abstract:
A printing apparatus comprises a image data generating device configured to generate image data based on a touch detection signal supplied from a written character inputting area of a touch panel inputting device, a blank space detecting device configured to detect and identify line data and upper and lower blank spaces based on the image data, a printing data generating device configured to generate printing data by executing a size conversion of the line data so as to match the line data to a tape width, and a printing processing device configured to execute a printing process based on the printing data, whereby even when a narrow print receiving tape is set in the apparatus and the user hand writing inputs data in a narrow space within the character inputting area, a highly visible printing is made on the print receiving tape.
Abstract:
Disclosed is an electronic device including: a cartridge holder that holds a cartridge; a motor for moving the cartridge holder in a moving direction; and a motor control circuit that controls a movement in the moving direction of the cartridge holder by the motor, wherein the motor control circuit applies a voltage or a current to the motor to apply, to the cartridge holder, a resisting force in a direction facing an external force, against the external force which is applied along the moving direction to the cartridge holder through the cartridge so as to mount the cartridge in the cartridge holder from the moving direction.
Abstract:
A method of creating a three-dimensionally shaped object, the method having: a creation step for creating image data for printing an image on a thermally expandable sheet; a printing step for printing an image on the thermally expandable sheet on the basis of the image data created in the creation step; and a protuberation step for partially protuberating the thermally expandable sheet via thermal expansion by irradiating light toward the image printed on the thermally expandable sheet in the printing step. The creation step creates image data such that a grayscale of an image is set so that a fastening portion that fastens a thermally expandable sheet is either intermittently or continuously surrounded by a region where a protuberation height resulting from the thermal expansion is high.
Abstract:
A method for producing a three dimensional (3D) image formation object as a specific product using a thermally expandable sheet on which an intended 3D image is formed is described. The method sets first and second regions with a first processing line as a borderline on the first side, forms a first image for obtaining a 3D image in the first region, prints information on the second region, processes the 3D image formation sheet to fold the sheet along the first processing line, and adheres a third region which is on a second side of the 3D image formation sheet and corresponding to the second region and a fourth region which is on the second side of and corresponding to the fourth region to each other. This completes the 3D image formation object in which the first and second regions have a front/back relationship.