JPH0524258A - Printing method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To print characters of a font having distinctiveness and ununiformity like handwriting. CONSTITUTION:Character information of a basic character pattern is represented by contact point information indicating nodes of the pattern and connection information for connecting the nodes and stored in a character information storage part 1. A shift rule for deforming a character is stored in a shift rule storage part 2. A character information conversion part 4 changes the contact information of the imparted character information using a shift rule from the shift rule storage part 2 and random numbers from a random number generation part 3. The changed contact point information and the original connection information are transmitted to a dot developing part 6 to be converted to dot information to be printed by a printing mechanism 7.

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 unevenness similar to writing.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, printing has a character pattern of one type or a plurality of types of typefaces, an optimum typeface character pattern is selected according to the purpose of printing, and the pattern is directly printed. There is.

[0003]

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

[0004]

According to the printing method of the present invention, character information storage means for storing character pattern information represented by the coordinates of points and the connection of the points and the character information storage means are stored. A movement rule storage means for storing a rule for moving the coordinates of the points, a random number generation means for generating a random number, and the coordinates of the points stored in the character information storage means are stored in the movement rule storage means. Character information conversion means for moving the pattern information generated by the random number generation means and the random number generated by the random number generation means and the pattern information generated by the character information conversion means. It is configured by including dot developing means for converting the above dot pattern information and printing means for printing the dot pattern converted by the dot expanding means.

[0005]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an 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. The movement rule storage unit 2 is connected to the movement rule input unit 5. The character information conversion unit 5 is connected to the printing mechanism 7 via the 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 for the character "A" shown in FIG.
It is shown in (b). The character information is composed of contact information in which each point of the character is represented by coordinates in a region having a certain size and connection information in which each point is connected.

The moving rule storage unit 2 stores the moving rule information input from the moving rule input unit 5. For the movement rule information, for example, the bottom contact information of all character patterns is not moved to the left or right, but otherwise the right movement is allowed and the font is moved to the right. It has been set.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a process of processing by the character information conversion unit 4. When 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 receives the movement rule information from the movement rule storage unit 2 and the random number generation unit 3. With the random number, the connection information remains unchanged and the contact information is changed to create new character information. FIG. 3B is a diagram showing an example of a character pattern based on new character information. Then, 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 showing an example of a character pattern based on the adjusted character information.

FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining the processing of the dot expanding section 6. Upon receiving the contact information and the connection information of the character, the dot development unit 6 converts the contact information and the connection information of the character into the dot information of each point on the grid indicating the pixels to be printed by the printing mechanism 7. 4 (b) is shown in FIG.
The pattern which converted the character example "A" shown to (a) 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 given from the character information storage unit 1 to the character information conversion unit 4, the character information conversion unit 4 moves according to the given character information. The rule information is extracted from the movement rule storage unit 2, the contact information is changed by the random number and the movement rule information sent from the random number generation unit 3 at any time, and the changed contact information and the original connection information are expanded into a dot expansion unit. Send to 6. The dot development unit 6 converts the received character information into dot information, and sends this dot information to the printing mechanism 7 for printing.

[0012]

As described above, according to the present invention, based on the character information in which the basic pattern of the character is represented by the contact information and the connection information, the character is defined by the intentional movement rule and the random number generated at any time. By changing the contact information in 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 it has an intentional transformation. As a result, there is an effect that printing similar to handwriting can be performed.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

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

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a process of processing by a character information conversion unit of FIG.

FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining the processing of the dot development unit of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 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 expansion unit 7 printing mechanism

Claims (1)

Claim: What is claimed is: 1. Character information storage means for storing character pattern information by representing the coordinates of points and the connection of the points, and storing the information.
Movement rule storage means for storing the rules for moving the coordinates of the points stored in the character information storage means, random number generation means for generating a random number, and coordinates of the points stored in the character information storage means. A character information conversion unit for moving the rule stored in the moving rule storage unit and the random number generated by the random number generation unit to create pattern information in which a character is deformed, and a character information conversion unit A printing method comprising: dot developing means for converting pattern information into dot pattern information on a predetermined grid; and printing means for printing the dot pattern converted by the dot expanding means.