Patent ID: 11970016
Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  H  D  G | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A printing apparatus comprising:
a transport unit configured to transport clothing fabric at which a pattern is formed;
an imaging unit configured to image the clothing fabric transported by the transport unit;
a printing unit configured to perform printing on the clothing fabric transported by the transport unit; and
a control unit, wherein
the control unit registers, in a predetermined storage unit, first image data representing the pattern,
extracts, based on a comparison between the first image data and second image data generated by imaging of the clothing fabric by the imaging unit, a plurality of pattern regions in the second image data such that each of the plurality of pattern regions includes the pattern,
corrects third image data that represent a region that has a rectangle shape and includes an image to be printed overlapping the pattern, such that the rectangle shape of the region of the third image data matches a shape of one of the plurality of pattern regions, the correcting being performed for each of the plurality of pattern regions to generate a plurality of pieces of corrected image data based on the third image data, and
causes the printing unit to print the plurality of pieces of corrected image data on the clothing fabric.