Patents by Inventor Norhiro Kawatoko

Norhiro Kawatoko has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINT DATA GENERATING METHOD
    Publication number: 20120274949
    Abstract: An ink jet printing apparatus comprises a distributing unit configured to distribute print data for printing dot into data used for printing by first printing elements provided in a print head and data used for printing by second printing elements provided in the same print head, and a determining unit configured to, for the data used for printing by the respective parts of the printing element arrays of each of first and second print heads which have the overlapped print regions, determine a ratio between amount of the data used for printing by a combination of the first and second printing element arrays in the first print head and a combination of the first and second printing element arrays in the second print head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Masuda, Norhiro Kawatoko, Hitoshi Nishikori, Osamu Iwasaki, Tomoki Yamamuro, Atsuhiko Masuyama, Fumiko Suzuki