Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and computer-readable storage medium to form a image on a three dimensional object

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9108432-B2
Application number	US-201414251731-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 14, 2014
Priority date	Apr 23, 2013
Publication date	Aug 18, 2015
Grant date	Aug 18, 2015

Abstract

An image forming apparatus includes a shape information acquisition unit configured to acquire shape information indicating a shape of a three-dimensional object on which an image forming process is to be performed; a surface determination unit configured to determine a plurality of surfaces from which the three-dimensional object is constructed, based on the shape information; and an output image information generation unit configured to generate surface image information and join region image information. The surface image information is information on images to be formed on the respective surfaces. Each image is of a region obtained by cutting an end of the corresponding surface by a predetermined amount. The join region image information is information on an image to be formed on a join region between the adjacent surfaces.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
a shape information acquirer configured to acquire shape information indicating a shape of a three-dimensional object on which an image forming process is to be performed;
a surface determiner configured to determine a plurality of surfaces from which the three-dimensional object is constructed, based on the shape information; and
an output image information generator configured to generate surface image information…

Assignees

• Sohgawa Norimasa
• Ricoh Co Ltd

Inventors

• Sohgawa Norimasa

Classifications

• B41J3/4073 Primary

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic