Recording device and recording method

Claim 2

A recording device which performs recording on a recording medium, comprising: a recording head equipped with a row of recording elements arrayed as slanted to the direction vertical to the relative moving direction to said recording medium, and control means which, in dividing the plurality of recording elements constituting said row of recording elements into blocks each of a plurality of recording elements and driving by time division for each of said blocks, memories image data, and in carrying out returning way recording, reading and supplying said image data memoried in said respective blocks to be driven in the order opposite to that in going way recording.

Claim 3

A recording method which performs recording on a recording medium, which comprises: memorizing image data by arraying a row of recording elements as slanted to the direction vertical to the relative moving direction to said recording medium, dividing the plurality of recording elements constituting said row of recording elements into blocks each of a plurality of recording elements and driving by time division for each of said blocks, and, in carrying out returning way recording, reading and supplying said image data memoried in said respective blocks to be driven in the order opposite to that in going way recording.

Claim 4

A recording method which performs recording on a recording medium, which comprises: memorizing image data by arraying a row of recording elements as slanted to the direction vertical to the relative moving direction to said recording medium, dividing the plurality of recording elements constituting said row of recording elements into blocks each of a plurality of recording elements and driving by time division for each of said blocks, and, in carrying out returning way recording, reading and supplying said image data memoried in said respective blocks to be driven in the order opposite to that in going way recording.

Claim 5

A recording device having a recording head with a plurality of recording elements for performing dot recording corresponding to image data arrayed in a row, which drives each block of said plurality of recording elements divided into a plurality of blocks by time division and has said array of the plurality of recording elements fixed as slanted with respect to the direction vertical to the relative moving direction of said recording head for correcting recording slippage of dots which occurs by said time division driving, characterized in that it is provided with a memory means which memories temporarily by corresponding the image data to the recording position, designation means which designates successively said blocks to be driven in the order opposite to that of going way recording during returning way recording, and image data reading means which reads the image data corresponding to the block designated by said designation means and supplies the data to said designated block.

Claim 6

A recording device having a recording head with a plurality of recording elements for performing dot recording corresponding to image data arrayed in a row, which drives each block of said plurality of recording elements divided into a plurality of blocks by time division and has said array of the plurality of recording elements fixed as slanted with respect to the direction vertical to the relative moving direction of said recording head for correcting recording slippage of dots which occurs by said time division driving, characterized in that it is provided with a memory means which memories temporarily by corresponding the image data to the recording position, designation means which designates successively said blocks to be driven in the order opposite to that of going way recording during returning way recording, and image data reading means which reads the image data corresponding to the block designated by said designation means and supplies the data to said designated block.

Claim 7

A recording device according to Claim 3, wherein said image data reading means has: an address counter which generates address signals in a certain order and a logic circuits which sets the output of said address counter as the reading address corresponding to the memory means during going way recording and sets the reversed signal of the output of said address counter as the reading address corresponding to the memory means during returning way recording.

Claim 8

A recording device according to Claim 3, wherein said designation means has an up-down counter capable of counting in ascending order and descending order, and the counting order of said up-down counter is changed over depending on whether the recording is going way recording or returning way recording.

Claim 9

A recording device according to Claim 3, wherein said designation means and said reading means share a counter, said designation means designates said block by use of the counting result of said counter, and said reading means sets the reading address of said memory means by use of the counting result of said counter.

Claim 10

A recording method, having a recording head with a plurality of recording elements for performing dot recording corresponding to image data arrayed in a row, which drives each block of the plurality of recording elements divided into a plurality of blocks by time division and has the array of the plurality of recording elements fixed as slanted with respect to the direction vertical to the relative moving direction of the recording head for correcting recording slippage of dots which occurs by time division driving, characterized in that the image data are momentarily memoried in memory means corresponding to the recording position, said blocks to be driven are successively designated in the order opposite to going way recording during returning way recording, and the image data corresponding to said designated block are read from said memory means and supplied to said designated block.

Claim 11

A recording method, having a recording head with a plurality of recording elements for performing dot recording corresponding to image data arrayed in a row, which drives each block of the plurality of recording elements divided into a plurality of blocks by time division and has the array of the plurality of recording elements fixed as slanted with respect to the direction vertical to the relative moving direction of the recording head for correcting recording slippage of dots which occurs by time division driving, characterized in that the image data are momentarily memoried in memory means corresponding to the recording position, said blocks to be driven are successively designated in the order opposite to going way recording during returning way recording, and the image data corresponding to said designated block are read from said memory means and supplied to said designated block.

Claim 12

An image processing device comprising: input means for inputting image data of color components successively and repeatedly as synchronized with a predetermined clock, memory means which memories said image data following a given address, address generating means for generating address as synchronized with said predetermined clock, said address generating means generating the bit of said color components as the upper bit of said address.

Claim 13

An image processing device comprising: input means for inputting image data of color components successively and repeatedly as synchronized with a predetermined clock, memory means which memories said image data following a given address, address generating means for generating address as synchronized with said predetermined clock, said address generating means generating the bit of said color components as the upper bit of said address.

Claim 14

An image recordig device which records an image with a carriage having recording heads for the respective colors placed at predetermined intervals in the main scanning direction mounted thereon by reading the image data of the respective colors from a memory having recorded image data memoried therein, characterized in that said device is equipped with an input means for inputting image data of the respective color components successively as synchronized with a predetermined clock, address generation means which generates addresses with a bit number corresponding to the address space of said memory, address converting means which supplies addresses from the addresses at the lower position generated in said address generation means with at least the bit number corresponding to the recorded color number being exchanged with the remaining group of upper address bits, and writing means for writing the image data inputted by said input means at the address position of said memory supplied by said address converting means.

Claim 15

An image recordig device which records an image with a carriage having recording heads for the respective colors placed at predetermined intervals in the main scanning direction mounted thereon by reading the image data of the respective colors from a memory having recorded image data memoried therein, characterized in that said device is equipped with an input means for inputting image data of the respective color components successively as synchronized with a predetermined clock, address generation means which generates addresses with a bit number corresponding to the address space of said memory, address converting means which supplies addresses from the addresses at the lower position generated in said address generation means with at least the bit number corresponding to the recorded color number being exchanged with the remaining group of upper address bits, and writing means for writing the image data inputted by said input means at the address position of said memory supplied by said address converting means.

Claim 16

An image recording device according to Claim 9, wherein the image data inputted by said input means are serial data, the device is equipped with a converting means for converting said serial data to parallel data of bite units of the respective colors, and said address generation means and said writing means are urged as synchronized when the bite data of the respective colors are formed.

Claim 17

An image recording device comprising at least two recording heads arranged with predetermined intervals in the scanning direction, characterized in that the intervals in said scanning direction for recording of the respective heads are made the distances of the dot numbers corresponding to the number of said recording heads, and at least the recording dot positions with the individual recording heads are not overlapped with each other.

Claim 18

An image recording device comprising at least two recording heads arranged with predetermined intervals in the scanning direction, characterized in that the intervals in said scanning direction for recording of the respective heads are made the distances of the dot numbers corresponding to the number of said recording heads, and at least the recording dot positions with the individual recording heads are not overlapped with each other.

Claim 19

An image recordig device according to Claim 11, wherein, when color image recording is to be performed, recording colors different for said respective recording heads are allotted, and the device is equipped with a means which drives said respective recording heads on the basis of the dot information of said color image.

Claim 20

An image recording device comprising a plurality of recording heads arranged at predetermined intervals and having, as the means for correcting said recording head intervals, a memory for accumulating temporarily input data and the function of reading the data within said memory with time difference corresponding to said head intervals, characterized in that the image data supplied to said recording head correspond to the memory region momentarily accumulated, and allotment into the memory wherein said image input data are temporarily accumulated is changed over depending on the mounting state of the recording head.

Claim 21

An image recording device comprising a plurality of recording heads arranged at predetermined intervals and having, as the means for correcting said recording head intervals, a memory for accumulating temporarily input data and the function of reading the data within said memory with time difference corresponding to said head intervals, characterized in that the image data supplied to said recording head correspond to the memory region momentarily accumulated, and allotment into the memory wherein said image input data are temporarily accumulated is changed over depending on the mounting state of the recording head.

Claim 22

An image recording device according to Claim 11 or Claim 13, wherein during monochromatic printing, the printing speed is changed over depending on the number of the writing heads of the same color.

Claim 23

An image recording device according to Claim 11 or Claim 13, wherein the device has the function of distinguishing the colors of said recording heads, and the printing speed is changed over by counting the number of the recording heads of the same color.

Claim 24

An ink jet printer comprising recording heads arranged at predetermined intervals, a memory means which accumulate temporarily the inputted data, a reading means which reads said data memoried in said memory means with time difference corresponding to the intervals of said recording heads a blank discharge data formation circuit for maintaining the ink discharge performance of said recording head, and a writing means for writing the blank discharge signal outputted from said blank data formation circuit into said memory means.

Claim 25

An ink jet printer comprising recording heads arranged at predetermined intervals, a memory means which accumulate temporarily the inputted data, a reading means which reads said data memoried in said memory means with time difference corresponding to the intervals of said recording heads a blank discharge data formation circuit for maintaining the ink discharge performance of said recording head, and a writing means for writing the blank discharge signal outputted from said blank data formation circuit into said memory means.

Claim 26

An ink jet printer according to Claim 16, wherein driving of said blank discharge data formation circuit is performed with an image clock.

Claim 27

An ink jet printer according to Claim 16, wherein said blank discharge data formation circuit is equipped with a means for setting the output pattern from said formation circuit.