JP2654274B2 - Printing method - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a printing method and, more particularly, to a printing method for printing characters having a habit and uneven writing.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, printing has one or more types of character patterns, and the most suitable character pattern is selected according to the purpose of printing, and the pattern is directly printed. I have.

[0003]

The above-mentioned conventional printing method has a drawback that only a uniform character pattern can be printed because the printable character pattern is limited to the character pattern held. In addition, there is a disadvantage that when trying to print non-uniform characters, the character pattern becomes enormous and cannot be stored in the memory.

[0004]

According to the printing method of the present invention, a character information storage means for storing character pattern information expressed by coordinates of points and a connection between the points, and a character information storage means for storing the character pattern information. Movement rule storage means for storing a rule for moving the coordinates of a point, random number generation means for generating a random number, and coordinates of the point stored in the character information storage means are stored in the movement rule storage means. Character information converting means for creating pattern information in which characters are deformed by moving according to the rules set forth above and the random numbers generated by the random number generating means, and a predetermined grid for converting the pattern information generated by the character information converting means. It is constituted by having dot developing means for converting the dot pattern information into upper dot pattern information, and printing means for printing the dot pattern converted by the dot developing means.

[0005]

Next, the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of one embodiment of the present invention. In the block diagram of FIG. 1, a character information storage unit 1 stores a basic pattern of character print information, and is connected to a character information conversion unit 4 together with a movement rule storage unit 2 and a random number generation mechanism 3. Note that the movement rule storage unit 2 is connected to the movement rule input unit 5. The character information conversion unit 5 is connected to a printing mechanism 7 via a dot development unit 6.

FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining the contents of the character information stored in the character information storage unit 1. As an example, FIG.
The contents of the character information corresponding to the character "A" shown in FIG.
This is shown in (b). The character information includes contact information indicating each point of the character by coordinates in an area having a certain size and connection information indicating a connection between the points.

[0008] The movement rule storage unit 2 stores the movement rule information input from the movement rule input unit 5. For example, the movement rule information does not move left and right of the lowest contact information of all character patterns, but otherwise allows only right movement to make it a rightward typeface, or finely moves the contact movement direction for each character. It is determined.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the process of the process performed by the character information converter 4. When, for example, the character information of the character “A” shown in FIG. 3A is input from the character information storage unit 1, the character information conversion unit 4 and the movement rule information from the movement rule storage unit 2 and the random number generation unit 3 With the random numbers, the connection information is left unchanged and the contact information is changed to create new character information. FIG. 3B is a diagram illustrating an example of a character pattern based on new character information. Thereafter, adjustment is performed so that the new coordinates in the contact information are within a certain range from the original coordinates. FIG. 3C is a diagram illustrating an example of a character pattern based on the adjusted character information.

FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining the processing of the dot developing section 6. When receiving the contact information and the connection information of the character, the dot developing section 6 converts the information into dot information of each point on a grid indicating a pixel to be printed by the printing mechanism 7. FIG. 4B shows FIG.
A pattern in which the character example "A" shown in (a) is converted into dot information is shown.

Next, the overall operation of FIG. 1 will be described. First, the movement rule information is stored in the movement rule storage unit 2 from the movement rule input unit 5. When the contact information and the connection information, which are the character information corresponding to the character to be printed, are provided from the character information storage unit 1 to the character information conversion unit 4, the character information conversion unit 4 moves the character information corresponding to the given character information. The rule information is extracted from the movement rule storage unit 2, and the contact information is changed based on the random number and the movement rule information sent from the random number generation unit 3 as needed. Send to 6. The dot developing section 6 converts the received character information into dot information and sends the dot information to the printing mechanism 7 for printing.

[0012]

As described above, the present invention is based on character information representing a basic pattern of a character by contact information and connection information, and by using an intentional movement rule and a random number generated as needed. By changing the contact information of the information to create new character information, and developing this character information into dot information and printing it, it is possible to print non-uniform character patterns and have intentional deformation As a result, there is an effect that printing can be performed that resembles manual writing.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining the contents of character information stored in a character information storage unit of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a process of processing by a character information conversion unit in FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining processing of a dot developing unit in FIG. 1;

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 1 character information storage unit 2 movement rule storage unit 3 random number generation unit 4 character information conversion unit 5 movement rule input unit 6 dot development unit 7 printing mechanism

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. Character information storage means for storing character pattern information by expressing the pattern information of the character by the coordinates of the point and the connection of the point,
A movement rule storage means for storing a rule for moving the coordinates of the point stored in the character information storage means; a random number generation means for generating a random number; and the coordinates of the point stored in the character information storage means Character information converting means for generating pattern information in which characters are deformed by moving the character by the rule stored in the movement rule storing means and the random number generated by the random number generating means, and the character information converting means. A printing method comprising: dot developing means for converting pattern information into dot pattern information on a predetermined grid; and printing means for printing a dot pattern converted by the dot developing means.