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

Claim 4:
5. A printing method comprising:
registering, in a predetermined storage unit, first image data representing a pattern formed at clothing fabric;
transporting the clothing fabric;
imaging the transported clothing fabric;
extracting, based on a comparison between the first image data and second image data generated by imaging of the clothing fabric, a plurality of pattern regions in the second image data such that each of the plurality of pattern regions includes the pattern;
correcting 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
printing the plurality of pieces of corrected image data on the transported clothing fabric.