Device and method for recording image to electronic paper
    1.
    发明授权
    Device and method for recording image to electronic paper 失效
    将图像记录到电子纸的装置和方法

    公开(公告)号:US08514256B2

    公开(公告)日:2013-08-20

    申请号:US13020508

    申请日:2011-02-03

    IPC分类号: B41J2/41

    CPC分类号: G01D15/06

    摘要: The quality of an image recorded on electronic paper is improved. Specifically, electronic paper for displaying an image is supplied in a region in which an electric field is generated in the thickness direction of the electronic paper, the electronic paper having charged color particles and being used for displaying an image as a result of charged color particles migrating in the thickness direction. Voltage for generating an electric field in the region is controlled by a voltage control section so that the value of the voltage varies together with time. The quality of an image recorded on electronic paper can thereby be improved.

    摘要翻译: 电子纸上记录的图像的质量得到改善。 具体地说,在电子纸的厚度方向上产生电场的区域中提供用于显示图像的电子纸,该电子纸具有带电的彩色颗粒,并被用于显示作为带电颜色粒子的结果的图像 在厚度方向上移动。 用于在该区域中产生电场的电压由电压控制部控制,使得电压值随时间变化。 因此可以提高记录在电子纸上的图像的质量。

    Outline smoothing method and system
    2.
    发明授权
    Outline smoothing method and system 失效
    外形平滑方法和系统

    公开(公告)号:US06753862B1

    公开(公告)日:2004-06-22

    申请号:US09684799

    申请日:2000-10-06

    IPC分类号: G06T1100

    CPC分类号: G06F17/214 G09G5/28

    摘要: There is provided an method for a character-outputting apparatus which is capable of storing a character image defined by a character font, as bitmap data in the form of a dot matrix, and printing or displaying the character image. The bitmap data is converted temporarily to vector data when the character image is enlarged. Then a new line is drawn from a starting point of each vector of the vector data to an ending point of the vector in a vector direction, where is included a diagonal discontinuity between dots diagonally adjacent to each other, and an inside of the new line is filled to thereby regenerate bitmap data corresponding to the character image.

    摘要翻译: 提供了一种能够存储由字符字体定义的字符图像作为点阵形式的位图数据并打印或显示字符图像的字符输出装置的方法。 当字符图像被放大时,位图数据被临时转换为矢量数据。 然后,从向量数据的每个向量的起始点向矢量方向的终点绘制新线,其中包括彼此相对邻接的点之间的对角线间断,以及新线的内部 填充,从而再生与字符图像对应的位图数据。

    Three-dimensional hard copy apparatus
    3.
    发明授权
    Three-dimensional hard copy apparatus 失效
    三维硬拷贝机

    公开(公告)号:US07311512B2

    公开(公告)日:2007-12-25

    申请号:US11085592

    申请日:2005-03-21

    IPC分类号: B29C59/02

    CPC分类号: B41J3/32 B41J3/38

    摘要: A three-dimensional hard copy apparatus including: a shape forming unit including plural display pins having a contact unit, which selectively contacts a thermoplastic sheet, and moves relative to a display surface and is capable of forming a predetermined pattern; a drive unit that selectively drives the plural display pins; a lock sheet that holds the positions of the plural display pins; and a fan that moves the thermoplastic sheet in a direction of the shape forming unit and brings the thermoplastic sheet into press contact with the shape forming unit, wherein the apparatus forms the predetermined pattern with the shape forming unit, holds the plural display pins with the lock sheet, and brings the thermoplastic sheet and the shape forming unit with the fan to mold a pattern of a shape matching the predetermined pattern, which is formed by the shape forming unit, on the thermoplastic sheet.

    摘要翻译: 一种三维硬拷贝装置,包括:形状形成单元,包括具有接触单元的多个显示销,所述接触单元选择性地接触热塑性片材,并相对于显示表面移动并且能够形成预定图案; 选择性地驱动多个显示引脚的驱动单元; 保持多个显示引脚的位置的锁定片; 以及风扇,其使热塑性片材沿着形状形成单元的方向移动并使热塑性片材与形状形成单元压接,其中,所述设备与形状形成单元形成预定图案, 将热塑性片材和形状形成单元带入风扇,以将由形状形成单元形成的与预定图案相匹配的形状的图案模制在热塑性片材上。

    Method and apparatus for controlling the thermal head drive
    4.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for controlling the thermal head drive 失效
    用于控制热敏头驱动的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US5690437A

    公开(公告)日:1997-11-25

    申请号:US566209

    申请日:1995-12-01

    摘要: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for driving and controlling a thermal head used in a printing device, such as a tape printer, in response to the temperature variations of the printing device environment and the thermal head. According to the present invention, in the printing operation of the tape printer, measurements are made of the initial temperature T1 immediately after the power is switched on, the temperature prior to printing T2, and the ambient temperature of the thermal head each time the thermal head prints T3 (i). If the temperature difference between the initial temperature T1 and the temperature prior to printing T2 is small, the duration of the current signals provided to the thermal head is controlled in accordance with the temperature prior to printing T2, which is the most recently measured thermal head ambient temperature best reflecting the printing device environmental temperature. If the difference is large, the duration is controlled in accordance with the initial temperature T1 which then best reflects the environmental temperature. If the rate of the increase in temperature during printing T3(i) is large, the duration is controlled in accordance with the initial temperature T2 to reduce the duration. If the temperature during printing T3(i) exceeds a temperature which indicates overheating, the printing operation is aborted. Thus, the present invention allows for controlling the thermal head drive by means of the measured thermal head temperature excluding the effect of the heat generation of the thermal head and in accordance with the thermal state of the thermal head.

    摘要翻译: 本发明提供了一种用于驱动和控制用于诸如带式打印机的打印装置中的热打印头的方法和装置,其响应于打印装置环境和热打印头的温度变化。 根据本发明,在带式打印机的打印操作中,测量电源接通后的初始温度T1,打印T2之前的温度,以及热敏头每次热量时的环境温度 头印T3(i)。 如果初始温度T1和打印T2之间的温度之间的温度差小,则提供给热敏头的电流信号的持续时间根据打印T2之前的温度进行控制,T2是最近测量的热敏头 环境温度最好反映印刷设备的环境温度。 如果差异较大,则持续时间根据最初反映环境温度的初始温度T1来控制。 如果打印T3(i)期间温度升高的速率大,则根据初始温度T2控制持续时间以减少持续时间。 如果在打印T3(i)期间的温度超过表示过热的温度,打印操作将中止。 因此,本发明允许通过测量的热头温度来控制热头驱动,除了热头的发热的影响,并根据热头的热状态。

    Printing method and apparatus
    5.
    发明授权
    Printing method and apparatus 有权
    印刷方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US06106176A

    公开(公告)日:2000-08-22

    申请号:US257856

    申请日:1999-02-25

    摘要: There are provided a method and apparatus for printing a print image on a print material by using a print head based on dot information of the print image by causing at least one of the print head and the print material to move to thereby effect relative motion between the print head and the print material at a relative speed dependent on a rotational speed of a DC motor as a drive source. Driving of the DC motor and the print head is controlled for printing of the print image. A distance from a predetermined length start position selected from a front end position, a print start position, and a print end position of the print material to a predetermined length end position at which the relative motion is to be terminated, is set to a predetermined length. Braking of the DC motor is controlled by varying a braking load on the DC motor in dependence on the relative speed and the predetermined length so as to terminate the relative motion at the predetermined length end position.

    摘要翻译: 提供了一种方法和装置,用于通过使打印头和打印材料中的至少一个移动从而通过使用基于打印图像的点信息的打印头在打印材料上打印打印图像,从而实现打印头之间的相对运动 打印头和打印材料以相对速度取决于作为驱动源的DC电动机的转速。 控制直流电动机和打印头的驱动以打印打印图像。 从打印材料的前端位置,打印开始位置和打印结束位置到相对运动要终止的预定长度结束位置的预定长度开始位置的距离设定为预定长度开始位置 长度。 通过根据相对速度和预定长度改变直流电动机上的制动负荷来控制直流电动机的制动,从而终止预定长度结束位置处的相对运动。

    Printer capable of printing a tape while the tape is accelerating and
decelerating in speed
    6.
    发明授权
    Printer capable of printing a tape while the tape is accelerating and decelerating in speed 失效
    打印机能够在磁带加速和速度减速时打印磁带

    公开(公告)号:US5980134A

    公开(公告)日:1999-11-09

    申请号:US942941

    申请日:1997-10-02

    摘要: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for driving and controlling a thermal head used in a printing device, such as a tape printer, in response to the temperature variations of the printing device environment and the thermal head. According to the present invention, in the printing operation of the tape printer, measurements are made of the initial temperature T1 immediately after the power is switched on, the temperature prior to printing T2, and the ambient temperature of the thermal head each time the thermal head prints T3(i). If the temperature difference between the initial temperature T1 and the temperature prior to printing T2 is small, the duration of the current signals provided to the thermal head is controlled in accordance with the temperature prior to printing T2, which is the most recently measured thermal head ambient temperature best reflecting the printing device environmental temperature. If the difference is large, the duration is controlled in accordance with the initial temperature T1, which then best reflects the environmental temperature. If the rate of the increase in temperature during printing T3(i) is large, the duration is controlled in accordance with the initial temperature T2 to reduce the duration. If the temperature during printing T3(i) exceeds a temperature which indicates overheating, the printing operation is aborted. Thus, the present invention allows for controlling the thermal head drive by means of the measured thermal head ambient temperature excluding the effect of the heat generation of the thermal head and in accordance with the thermal state of the thermal head.

    摘要翻译: 本发明提供了一种用于驱动和控制用于诸如带式打印机的打印装置中的热打印头的方法和装置,其响应于打印装置环境和热打印头的温度变化。 根据本发明,在带式打印机的打印操作中,测量电源接通后的初始温度T1,打印T2之前的温度,以及热敏头每次热量时的环境温度 头印T3(i)。 如果初始温度T1和打印T2之间的温度之间的温度差小,则提供给热敏头的电流信号的持续时间根据打印T2之前的温度进行控制,T2是最近测量的热敏头 环境温度最好反映印刷设备的环境温度。 如果差异较大,则根据初始温度T1来控制持续时间,其最好地反映环境温度。 如果打印T3(i)期间温度升高的速率大,则根据初始温度T2控制持续时间以减少持续时间。 如果在打印T3(i)期间的温度超过表示过热的温度,打印操作将中止。 因此,本发明允许通过测量的热头环境温度来控制热头驱动,排除热敏头的发热的影响,并根据热敏头的热状态。

    Three-dimensional hard copy apparatus
    7.
    发明申请
    Three-dimensional hard copy apparatus 失效
    三维硬拷贝机

    公开(公告)号:US20050220923A1

    公开(公告)日:2005-10-06

    申请号:US11085592

    申请日:2005-03-21

    CPC分类号: B41J3/32 B41J3/38

    摘要: A three-dimensional hard copy apparatus including: a shape forming unit including plural display pins having a contact unit, which selectively contacts a thermoplastic sheet, and moves relative to a display surface and is capable of forming a predetermined pattern; a drive unit that selectively drives the plural display pins; a lock sheet that holds the positions of the plural display pins; and a fan that moves the thermoplastic sheet in a direction of the shape forming unit and brings the thermoplastic sheet into press contact with the shape forming unit, wherein the apparatus forms the predetermined pattern with the shape forming unit, holds the plural display pins with the lock sheet, and brings the thermoplastic sheet and the shape forming unit with the fan to mold a pattern of a shape matching the predetermined pattern, which is formed by the shape forming unit, on the thermoplastic sheet.

    摘要翻译: 一种三维硬拷贝装置,包括:形状形成单元,包括具有接触单元的多个显示销,所述接触单元选择性地接触热塑性片材,并相对于显示表面移动并且能够形成预定图案; 选择性地驱动多个显示引脚的驱动单元; 保持多个显示引脚的位置的锁定片; 以及风扇,其使热塑性片材沿着形状形成单元的方向移动并使热塑性片材与形状形成单元压接,其中,所述设备与形状形成单元形成预定图案, 将热塑性片材和形状形成单元带入风扇,以将由形状形成单元形成的与预定图案相匹配的形状的图案模制在热塑性片材上。

    Label printer
    8.
    发明授权
    Label printer 失效
    标签打印机

    公开(公告)号:US06182565B2

    公开(公告)日:2001-02-06

    申请号:US09254509

    申请日:1999-03-05

    IPC分类号: B41F1700

    摘要: This invention relates to provide a label printer which prints by using data recorded in a recordable/reproducible disc and forms a label for the disc. The printer is capable of creating labels to affixed to various portions of the disc and a disc cartridge of the disc by easy operations, and at a time. Further, irrespective of the size of contents of the disc, the printer can create a label from which contents of the disc are grasped at a glance.

    摘要翻译: 本发明涉及提供一种标签打印机,其通过使用记录在可记录/可再生盘中的数据进行打印,并形成盘的标签。 打印机能够通过简单的操作和一次来创建标签以固定到盘的各个部分和盘的盘盒。 此外,无论盘的内容物的大小如何,打印机可以创建一个标签,从而一目了然地抓住盘的内容物。

    Image-printing method and device
    9.
    发明授权
    Image-printing method and device 有权
    图像打印方法和设备

    公开(公告)号:US06247860B1

    公开(公告)日:2001-06-19

    申请号:US09368132

    申请日:1999-08-04

    IPC分类号: B41J1126

    摘要: There are provided an image-printing method and device for enabling a more attractive print image to be obtained, even when a basic image is printed which is formed by changing the size of a whole image including image elements formed based on outline fonts or dot matrices. The image-printing method and device print an image on a printing object, while causing a print head and the printing object to move in a predetermined direction to effect relative motion between the print head and the printing object, to thereby form a printed image t. A high-density printing basic image is formed by increasing a dot size in the predetermined direction of a basic image created by arranging at least one image element therein, by a factor of m (m is a natural number equal to or larger than 2). The high-density printing basic image is printed in a print size identical to a print size of a printed image to be obtained by directly printing the basic image, at a dot density increased by the factor of m in the predetermined direction.

    摘要翻译: 提供了一种用于使得能够获得更有吸引力的打印图像的图像打印方法和装置,即使当通过改变包括基于轮廓字体或点矩阵形成的图像元素的整个图像的大小而形成的基本图像时, 。 图像打印方法和装置在打印对象上打印图像,同时使得打印头和打印对象沿预定方向移动以实现打印头和打印对象之间的相对运动,从而形成打印图像t 。 通过将通过在其中布置至少一个图像元素而产生的基本图像的预定方向上的点尺寸增加m倍(m是等于或大于2的自然数),形成高密度打印基本图像, 。 高密度打印基本图像以与通过直接打印基本图像获得的打印图像的打印尺寸相同的打印尺寸打印,以在预定方向上以因子m增加的点密度。

    Method and apparatus for controlling the thermal head drive
    10.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for controlling the thermal head drive 失效
    用于控制热敏头驱动的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US06042284A

    公开(公告)日:2000-03-28

    申请号:US322103

    申请日:1999-05-27

    摘要: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for driving and controlling a thermal head used in a printing device, such as a tape printer, in response to the temperature variations of the printing device environment and the thermal head. According to the present invention, in the printing operation of the tape printer, measurements are made of the initial temperature T1 immediately after the power is switched on, the temperature prior to printing T2, and the ambient temperature of the thermal head each time the thermal head prints T3 (i). If the temperature difference between the initial temperature T1 and the temperature prior to printing T2 is small, the duration of the current signals provided to the thermal head is controlled in accordance with the temperature prior to printing T2, which is the most recently measured thermal head ambient temperature best reflecting the printing device environmental temperature. If the difference is large, the duration is controlled in accordance with the initial temperature T1 which then best reflects the environmental temperature. If the rate of the increase in temperature during printing T3(i) is large, the duration is controlled in accordance with the initial temperature T2 to reduce the duration. If the temperature during printing T3(i) exceeds a temperature which indicates overheating, the printing operation is aborted. Thus, the present invention allows for controlling the thermal head drive by means of the measured thermal head ambient temperature excluding the effect of the heat generation of the thermal head and in accordance with the thermal state of the thermal head.

    摘要翻译: 本发明提供了一种用于驱动和控制用于诸如带式打印机的打印装置中的热打印头的方法和装置,其响应于打印装置环境和热打印头的温度变化。 根据本发明,在带式打印机的打印操作中,测量电源接通后的初始温度T1,打印T2之前的温度,以及热敏头每次热量时的环境温度 头印T3(i)。 如果初始温度T1和打印T2之间的温度之间的温度差小,则提供给热敏头的电流信号的持续时间根据打印T2之前的温度进行控制,T2是最近测量的热敏头 环境温度最好反映印刷设备的环境温度。 如果差异较大,则持续时间根据最初反映环境温度的初始温度T1来控制。 如果打印T3(i)期间温度升高的速率大,则根据初始温度T2控制持续时间以减少持续时间。 如果在打印T3(i)期间的温度超过表示过热的温度,打印操作将中止。 因此,本发明允许通过测量的热头环境温度来控制热头驱动,排除热敏头的发热的影响,并根据热敏头的热状态。