EP0072708A2
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Printer
Assignee: Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp
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Filing: 1982-08-19
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Granted: —
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Expires: 2002-08-19
Abstract
Abstract A printer (25) provided with a freely rewritable character pattern memory (35) recognizes a part of the control signal (27) supplied thereto from a host system as a character pattern memory rewrite code. Following the rewrite code, a data string consituting character pattern data is received and is used to rewrite selected portions of the character pattern memory (35).
Inventors
- 👤 Tomio Murayama
- 👤 Yoshiki Kikuchi
- 👤 Takashi Ohmori
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
EP
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-27 04:12
CPC Classifications
G; G06; G06K; G06K15/00; G06K15/02; G06K15/10; G06K2215/00; G06K2215/0002; G06K2215/0005; G06K2215/0008
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 8
Claim 1
Independent Claim
115 words
A printer, comprising: means for recognizing a particular control code in an input signal as the control code for instructing the rewriting of a character pattern; a freely rewritable character pattern memory for storing, as a signal representative of a character pattern to be rewritten, data supplied by said input signal following said particular control code; character generating means including said character pattern memory for accessig, according to a character code supplied by said input signal, a corresponding memory region to rpvode a video pattern for a character to be printed; and a printing section for performing a printing operation on a record medium according to said video pattern provided by said character generating means.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
115 words
A printer, comprising: means for recognizing a particular control code in an input signal as the control code for instructing the rewriting of a character pattern; a freely rewritable character pattern memory for storing, as a signal representative of a character pattern to be rewritten, data supplied by said input signal following said particular control code; character generating means including said character pattern memory for accessig, according to a character code supplied by said input signal, a corresponding memory region to rpvode a video pattern for a character to be printed; and a printing section for performing a printing operation on a record medium according to said video pattern provided by said character generating means.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
87 words
A printer, comprising: means for recognizing a particular control code in an input signal as the control code for instructing the rewriting of a character pattern; character pattern memory means for storing a defined range of data following said particular control code; means for accessing said character pattern memory means and for controlling the rewriting thereof in response to a control signal; and a printing section for printing data on a recording medium according to an output of a character generator including said character pattern memory means.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
87 words
A printer, comprising: means for recognizing a particular control code in an input signal as the control code for instructing the rewriting of a character pattern; character pattern memory means for storing a defined range of data following said particular control code; means for accessing said character pattern memory means and for controlling the rewriting thereof in response to a control signal; and a printing section for printing data on a recording medium according to an output of a character generator including said character pattern memory means.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
25 words
A printer as claimed in Claim 2, said character generator including first and second character pattern memories, and input and output switches for said memories.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
38 words
A printer as claimed in Claim 2, including sequence control means for generating a write instruction signal and a memory access signal for said character generator, in response to a control code signal derived from said input signal.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
25 words
A printer as claimed in Claim 4, said control code signal containing data indicative of a portion of said character pattern memory to be rewritten.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
38 words
A printer as claimed in Claim 2, including interface means receiving said input signal, for producing said control code signal for said sequence control means and a pattern signal containing character pattern rewriting data for said character generator.
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