摘要:
An apparatus for detecting foreign particles on a surface of a reticle or pellicle comprises an optical system through which a light beam forms a light spot on the surface. The surface and the light spot are shifted relatively so that the light spot scans the surface. Light detectors receive light scattered by a foreign particle and directed in different directions, respectively, and generated photoelectric outputs by which the presence of the foreign particle is discriminated. Beam diameter and scanning speed are varied to provide the most effective operation for particles of different sizes.
摘要:
An apparatus for detecting foreign particles on a transparent pellicle comprises a first illuminating device having a first optical axis crossing a surface of the pellicle at a predetermined angle for supplying a light beam onto said transparent pellicle along said first optical axis and a second illuminating device having a second optical axis crossing the surface of said pellicle at an angle different from said predetermined angle for supplying a light beam to said transparent pellicle along said second optical axis. The apparatus further includes a detector for comparing quantity of light of a light beam scattered by a foreign particle and directed to a predetermined direction from said first illuminating device with quantity of light of a light beam scattered by the foreign particle and directed to a predetermined direction from said second illuminating device and for determining a surface of the transparent pellicle on which said foreign particle exists.
摘要:
A defect inspecting apparatus for determining the presence of a defect element adhering to either of the front and back surfaces of a thin film-like object to be inspected (the object having a light-transmitting property) applies two light beams of different wavelengths to a surface of the object and varies the incident angle of the light beams. A first photoelectric detector receives light of the two light beams reflected by or transmitted by the object, and a second photoelectric detector receives light of the two light beams scattered by the defect element. A discriminator determines the surface of the object to which the defect element adheres based on detection outputs of the photoelectric detectors.
摘要:
A defect inspecting apparatus for discriminating one of two surfaces of a flat transparent object such as a pericle. The flat object is irradiated with a beam of light which is supplied from a light source and which is multiple-color light having predetermined wavelength ranges or white light of a broad band, scattered light from the defect is received by an optical element having wavelength selectivity, and scattered lights thereby separated with respect to the particular wavelength ranges are photoelectrically detected. The intensities of photoelectric signals thereby obtained are compared with each other.
摘要:
A printing system for one- or two-dimensional barcodes, and a method and program of creating virtual fonts for such barcodes enable the font and output parameters of the font to be easily changed. The printing system for printing one- or two-dimensional barcodes has a host computer and a printer in communication therewith. The host computer has an application program for creating text data containing a one- or two-dimensional barcode and a printer driver for converting the text data to commands and for sending the commands to the printer. The printing system also has a virtual font configuration program for defining a virtual font linking one- or two-dimensional barcode font data of the printer driver with parameter values configuring the corresponding barcodes.
摘要:
A general-purpose system for enabling the user to easily enter characters whose contents are hard to understand at a glance, such as bar codes, by using a general-purpose application program such as a wordprocessor is provided. For this purpose, a printer driver comprising a font file storing a display font and a bar code record font corresponding to the display font and a conversion function of converting display font codes into record font codes is provided. When a bar code is entered in an application program, a legible display font corresponding to the bar code can be used. On the other hand, when the bar code is printed, the printer driver compatible with a given printer converts the display font into a bar code record font and supplies the bar code record font. Thus, a high-accuracy bar code is printed in accordance with the standard.
摘要:
A host sends each page of image data to a page printer in band units and the page printer writes the received each band data into a reception buffer in DRAM by DMA and transfers the band data from the reception buffer to an image formation section made up of members. The host gets an available buffer capacity from the printer just before transmitting each band data, and transmits the band data only when the printer can receive the band data. In the printer, a CPU permits transfer DMA to be started after reception data as much as the data amount calculated based on the data reception speed and the transfer rate is stored in the buffer to prevent an underrun error from occurring. If an underrun error occurs, the CPU sets an error flag, and sends the error flag to the host just before the host starts transmitting each band data. When receiving the error flag, the host drops image resolution and resends the page data with the resolution dropped.
摘要:
A printing system for one- or two-dimensional barcodes, and a method and program of creating virtual fonts for such barcodes enable the font and output parameters of the font to be easily changed. The printing system for printing one- or two-dimensional barcodes has a host computer and a printer in communication therewith. The host computer has an application program for creating text data containing a one- or two-dimensional barcode and a printer driver for converting the text data to commands and for sending the commands to the printer. The printing system also has a virtual font configuration program for defining a virtual font linking one- or two-dimensional barcode font data of the printer driver with parameter values configuring the corresponding barcodes.
摘要:
If the printer generates the printing data itself completely, the processor in the printer generates the printing data after performing the predetermined processing based on the status information data by use of the font ROM, etc. The user enables the printing initiation instruction on the status information to be implemented by the switch on the printer (the printing initiation instruction module and the output initiation instruction monitoring module). With the printing initiation instruction, the printer and the host computer perform the two-way communication through the parallel communication I/O interfaces. Through the communication, the status information output module once transmits the status information obtained in the status information acquisition module on the printer to the host computer. When the status information acquisition module on the printer obtains the status information on the host computer, the printing data output module generates the printing file, and then the printing data output module implements the printing job for the printing file. Therefore, it is not necessary to equip the processor and the font ROM with the printer to generate the printing data. The status information can be printed on the simple and low-cost printer.
摘要:
A printer driver is provided in a host computer. When a print job occurs, the printer driver automatically selects the format of a plotting command to be output to a printer. As the command format, there are available two kinds of formats: a high-level printer control language format (for example, PDL), and an intermediate code format expressed in an intermediate language. When the latter format is selected, the printer driver converts a plotting command from an application to an intermediate code and then outputs the intermediate code to the printer. The printer converts the intermediate code to another intermediate code specific to the printer by a very simple processing, and then develops the intermediate code to a bit image, thereby enabling high speed printing.