Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
358100170 | Page or frame memory | 34 |
20080198414 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method - Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including: a memory unit having a common storage area which temporarily stores intermediate data between page description language data and bitmap data, and the bitmap data generated based on the intermediate data, and which includes a rasterization area used when the bitmap data are generated based on the intermediate data and temporarily stored therein; a control unit which generates the bitmap data form based on the intermediate data and temporarily stores in the rasterization area; an image processing unit which executes image processing on the bitmap data stored in the rasterization area by the control unit, and which stores the image-processing completed bitmap data in the storage area; and a memory area control section which expands the rasterization area according to a used state of the rasterization area. | 08-21-2008 |
20080198415 | Image forming device - An image forming device configured as follows. A user is allowed to select desired print data files to be printed from among print data files stored in an external storage. A file list generating unit generates a list of the desired print data files selected by the user. The list includes an order of the desired print data files. A page arrangement unit arranges each page of the desired print data files on each recording sheet based on the list of the desired print data, a print mode and a total number of pages of the desired print data files. Blank pages to be added to complete the arrangement of pages of the print data files with respect to the recording sheets are generated. Page data is retrieved based on the arrangement of pages and is converted to image data, which is printed by an image data printing unit. | 08-21-2008 |
20080204808 | Method of printing a multi-page document - A method of printing a document having a plurality of pages in an original sequence includes determining an second sequence to print each of the pages, wherein the second equence is different than the original sequence; loading each of the pages onto cyclic multi-page transport apparatus according to the optimal sequence; and unloading the pages from the transport apparatus according to the original sequence. | 08-28-2008 |
20080266605 | IMAGE-PROCESSING UNIT, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image-processing unit includes: a common drawing data acquisition component that acquires drawing data for a unit page containing a common image in variable printing whereby a plurality of pages are printed, with each of the pages having an image that is common among the pages and an image that is variable from page to page, the images being compounded; a variable drawing data acquisition component that acquires drawing data for a unit page containing the variable image at each page in the variable printing; a specification component that specifies, for each of the pages, a region where the common image is positioned over the variable image, among regions where the variable image is positioned; and a generation component that overwrites the common drawing data with the variable drawing data so as not to overwrite the specified region, and generates drawing data for variable printing. | 10-30-2008 |
20080309979 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, PRINT PROCESSING METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM - When a printer starts a printing operation using a rolled sheet having IC chips, it is determined whether an error occurred while an IC chip writing device writes information to the IC chips. First page information specifying a page region in which an error occurred and second page information specifying a page region which has been subjected to the printing operation using the printer at a time of occurrence of the error are transmitted to a host computer. Then, recovery information generated using the host computer is obtained, and a print restarting position of a recording medium is controlled so that an information writing position at the time of occurrence of the error corresponds to a position in which the printing operation is restarted. Thereafter, the printing operation is restarted from the printing restarting position in accordance with the recovery information. | 12-18-2008 |
20090027727 | Method, apparatus, and system for reduction of line processing memory size used in image processing - A method, apparatus, and system are provided by which image line data of an image frame is compressed before being stored to image line memory used in multiple image line processing. | 01-29-2009 |
20090051970 | IMAGE DATA STORAGE METHODS, IMAGE DATA STORAGE CONTROL APPARATUSES, IMAGE DATA STORAGE PROGRAMS, METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR FRAME DATA GENERATION AND PROGRAMS THEREFOR, METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR DATA ACQUISITION, AND METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR IMAGE DRAWING - An image data storage method is provided for obtaining image drawing spot data to be inputted to an image drawing spot forming unit that forms image drawing spots on an image drawing surface. The method comprises the step of storing the image data in storage means in such a manner that a direction along which addresses in the storage means are consecutive agrees with a direction of arrangement of the image data corresponding to a predetermined scanning direction of the image drawing spot forming unit relative to the image drawing surface. | 02-26-2009 |
20090067004 | Performance optimization method for network printers - A method for optimizing the performance of a network printer comprising: scanning the input print data stream in a raster image processor and processing the entire input print data stream in a page parallel processing pathway where said input print data stream is in a page independent form; otherwise selecting the processing pathway corresponding to a lower processing time period and thereafter processing the entire input print data stream using said selected processing pathway. | 03-12-2009 |
20090080025 | PARALLEL PROCESSING OF PAGE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE - A method and apparatus for efficient processing a page description language (“PDL”) data stream lacking page independence is described. The method and apparatus includes applying a single parsing pass for a PDL job and detecting PDL job producers by creator sniffer ( | 03-26-2009 |
20090086272 | Systems and methods for loading an output profile - Systems in accordance with the presently claimed invention use parameters to choose the correct output file for translating the color values in a print job into device specific values in an output data file that may be used for printing. A data structure, such as a linked list of parameters, may be used to identify the correct output file to be used by the printer to form the correct device specific data file. The color values for each pixel in the device specific data file may allow a printed document to exhibit high color quality. | 04-02-2009 |
20090091794 | APPARATUS CAPABLE OF USING MEMORY-EQUIPPED SHEET AND SHEET SELECTION APPARATUS - An apparatus capable of using a memory-equipped sheet, in which a memory device is provided to a sheet, comprises a selection part that selects a specific memory-equipped sheet from a plurality of memory-equipped sheets based on information stored in the memory device on the memory-equipped sheets. | 04-09-2009 |
20090103137 | Information processing apparatus, method, program, and storage medium - An information processing apparatus includes a first information acquisition unit, a second information acquisition unit, a third information acquisition unit, and an information embedder. The first information acquisition unit obtains target information. The second information acquisition unit obtains given information to be embedded in the target information. The third information acquisition unit obtains control information for accessing the given information. The information embedder generates embed information from the given information and the control information and embeds the embed information in the target information. | 04-23-2009 |
20090244625 | IMAGE PROCESSOR - An image processor is connectable with a storing medium storing at least one set of still image data each corresponding to a still image and at least one set of moving image data each including a plurality of sets of frame image data corresponding to a plurality of frame images. An extracting unit extracts at least one set of frame image data from the plurality of frame image data sets of each moving image data set. A layout order determining unit determines a layout order of still images each corresponding to the still image data sets and frame images each corresponding to the frame image data set extracted by the extracting unit according to a predetermined criterion. An output unit outputs an image list with the still images and the frame images laid out therein in the layout order determined by the layout order determining unit. | 10-01-2009 |
20090251734 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, MEMORY MANAGEMENT METHOD, COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - In an image processing system including an image processing apparatus | 10-08-2009 |
20100060934 | Systems and Methods for Optimal Memory Allocation Units - Methods for determining an optimal memory allocation unit size for a framebuffer in a single memory pool comprising frame buffer memory and display list memory on printing devices are presented. In some embodiments, a method for determining an optimal allocation unit size for memory allocation units allocated from a memory pool in response to a memory allocation request for a pixmap comprises determining the amount of unutilized memory when the pixmap is stored using a plurality of memory allocation unit sizes, wherein the memory allocation unit sizes are an integral multiple of a base memory allocation unit; and selecting a memory allocation unit size from the plurality of memory allocation unit sizes based on criteria related to the amount of unutilized memory. | 03-11-2010 |
20100079809 | Systems and Methods for Optimized Printer Throughput in a Multi-Core Environment - Systems and methods consistent with some embodiments presented provide methods for the concurrent generation and parallel rasterization of at least one display list in a memory pool comprising frame buffer memory and display list memory, wherein the display list comprises a plurality of equal sized display list blocks, the method comprises: monitoring the completion status of the display list blocks; monitoring the availability of rasterization processes; assigning a completed display list block to an available rasterization process; and rasterizing the display list block using the available rasterization process. In some embodiments, rasterization processes may run concurrently and operate on distinct blocks corresponding to distinct bands. Rasterized display list blocks are returned to the memory pool. In some embodiments, each concurrently executing rasterization process may execute on a distinct core of a multi-core processor. | 04-01-2010 |
20100110495 | GENERATING PAGE-ORIENTED DATA FOR PRINTING DYNAMIC DOCUMENTS - For generating from variable data page-oriented data for printing dynamic documents, a layout module ( | 05-06-2010 |
20100134844 | PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS, PRINT CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In determining whether to use RIP completed data, a print control apparatus determines whether objects constituting a processing target page are all reusable objects. As a result of this determination, if it is not determined that the objects constituting the processing target page are all reusable objects, the print control apparatus performs RIP on the processing target page data without using the RIP completed data. On the other hand, if the objects constituting the processing target page are all reusable objects, it is then determined whether a registered common page matching the processing target page is present in a common page table. As a result of this determination, if the registered common page is present, the print control apparatus reuses the RIP completed data. If the registered common page is not present, the print control apparatus performs the RIP on the processing target page without using the RIP completed data. | 06-03-2010 |
20100245917 | Methods and Systems for Rendering Data - Aspects of the present invention are related to systems and methods for rendering graphical objects in a printing system. According to one aspect of the present invention a graphic list may be partitioned, and the graphic-list partitions may be rendered “out-of-order” or concurrently. | 09-30-2010 |
20100245918 | Methods and Systems for Rendering Data - Aspects of the present invention are related to systems and methods for rendering graphical objects in a printing system. According to one aspect of the present invention a graphic list may be partitioned, and the graphic-list partitions may be rendered “out-of-order” or concurrently. | 09-30-2010 |
20100245919 | RECORDING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING RECORDING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - Positions of flushing candidate pixels are provided in standard areas S formed from pixels arranged in a matrix pattern. A reference area formation section forms a reference area Ref by arranging two standard areas S adjacently to each other in both a main scan direction and a conveyance direction. In a range where there are overlaps with virtual pixel rows | 09-30-2010 |
20110075219 | PRINTING DEVICE - The printing device includes an original data acquiring unit, a first determining unit, a first data generating unit, and a printing unit. The original data acquiring unit is configured to acquire original data representing at least two related objects on a worksheet. The first determining unit is configured to determine whether the at least two related objects are capable of being included in one page. The first data generating unit is configured to generate first data based on the original data. The first data generating unit generates the first data such that the at least two related objects are included in the one page when the first determining unit determines that the at least two related objects are capable of being included in the one page. The printing unit prints an image based on the first data. | 03-31-2011 |
20110128585 | Digital Image Processing With Inherent Compression - A method including storing a plurality of page elements. Each of the page elements includes i) a drawing command to render a page on a rendering device, and ii) a plurality of segments, in which each of the segments includes a drawing command for a scanline. The page elements are non-overlapping, and the segments are non-overlapping. The method further includes receiving a first page element and merging the first page element into the plurality of page elements by reducing the first page element into a first set of segments and by merging one of the first set of segments into the plurality of segments. Merging the one of the first set of segments into the plurality of segments includes selectively shrinking one of the plurality of segments. | 06-02-2011 |
20110188085 | IMAGE READER - An image reader is provided, which includes a controller that when a PC-scan mode is set as an output mode, the controller controls an image output unit to output second read data of a second side of a document sheet at each time when a storage unit stores the second read data output from a second image reading unit on a line-by-line basis, controls the storage device to store first read data of a first side of the document sheet during a time period from a time when a leading end of the document sheet reaches a reading position of a first image reading unit to a time when a trailing end of the document sheet passes through a reading position of the second image reading unit, and controls the image output unit to sequentially output the first read data stored on the storage unit, after completely outputting the second read data. | 08-04-2011 |
20120127531 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus stores, in a buffer, an image data of c bits in the main scanning direction and y lines in the sub scanning direction, and reads out a pixel data of p bits that configures the image data stored in the buffer. Note that c is a common multiple of m, which is the number of bits in the unit of memory access, and p, which is the number of bits in a single pixel. | 05-24-2012 |
20120218605 | PRINT INSTRUCTION DEVICE AND PRINT INSTRUCTION SYSTEM - A print instruction device configured to instruct a print unit to print an image stored in an image storing unit storing a plurality of images is provided. The print instruction device comprises a display unit, an operation unit, and a controller. The controller is configured to judge whether each of the plurality of images stored in the image storing unit includes a person who is included in a past image which had been printed in the past, control the display unit to display information regarding the image which is judged to include the person who is included in the past image in a different form than information regarding the image which is judged not to include the person included in the past image, receive a selection of an image for printing through the operation unit, and instruct the print unit to print the selected image. | 08-30-2012 |
20120250093 | Image Forming Apparatus that Buffers Data in a Storage Device and Reduces Delays in Process - An image forming apparatus includes a processor, and a storage controller that writes band data to a storage device and reads the band data. The processor: (a) generates a write-side process and a read-side process; (b) generates a write-side thread by the write-side process; (c) generates a read-side thread and a file read thread by the read-side process; (d) notifies the read-side process of an identifier within the storage device, and causes the storage controller to sequentially write the band data; and (e) requests the file read thread to cause the storage controller to sequentially read out the band data corresponding to the identifier and causes the storage controller to sequentially read out the band data and one or more subsequent band data. | 10-04-2012 |
20120250094 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes a renderer configured to render a one page amount of image data based on intermediate data generated by either a first execution unit or a second execution unit, a printer engine configured to form image data of a page rendered by the renderer on a recording medium, and after forming the image data, stop each unit in the engine when there is no image data formation instruction corresponding to a next page of the page even after a cycle down time limit has elapsed, and a request unit configured to, during generation of intermediate data of a predetermined page by the first execution unit, request an extension of the cycle down time limit set in the printer engine based on a number of pages of rendered image data corresponding to intermediate data of pages following the predetermined page. | 10-04-2012 |
20130278969 | PRINTING METHOD AND PRINTING APPARATUS - In a method for printing recording media successively supplied to a printing unit, and wherein a sheet gap is provided from a preceding recording medium, document print data are subjected to a rastering process. A predetermined nominal number of lines is respectively provided for the document print data of a page. The raster print data are successively stored line by line in a print data memory region of an electronic memory. A blank line memory region for a blank line that is not to be filled with print data is provided in the memory. The raster print data are successively read out per line from the print data memory region of the memory and are supplied to the printing unit. After the read out of the nominal number of lines from the print data memory region, the blank line memory region is then read out a number of times, said number of times being a whole number greater than or equal to zero and being dependent on the sheet gap. | 10-24-2013 |
20140233067 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image processing device includes: a drawing command transfer unit that transfers a drawing command for generating image data in a third region of a second storage unit to a first region of a first storage unit; a drawing unit that generates band image data in units of a band having a lower height compared with one page and a predetermined width, in accordance with the drawing command in the first region; a band image data transfer unit that transfers the band image data to a second region of the first storage; and an image transfer unit that transfers the band image data in the second region to a fourth region of the second storage unit. The drawing unit determines the first region according to a size of the drawing command, and determines the second region by subtracting the first region from a region of the first storage unit. | 08-21-2014 |
20140240785 | Image Forming Apparatus and Method for Improved Utilization of Video Memory - An image forming apparatus converts image data into a video signal, updates a value of a counter without loading the image data onto a video memory, if a print request is a single-sided print request and the image data corresponding to a page information included in the print request is stored on the video memory, and loads the image data corresponding to the page information in the print request onto the video memory, if the print request is a double-sided print request, or if the print request is the single-sided print request and the image data corresponding to the page information included in the print request is not stored on the video memory. | 08-28-2014 |
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20150293736 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND MEMORY MANAGEMENT METHOD THAT IMPROVES USAGE EFFICIENCY OF MEMORY - A first-region allocating unit of an electronic device allocates a first region having a size required for a first process. The first process includes at least one second process in a region of the memory. A second-region dividing unit divides a second region having a size required for the second process by the second process. A region-for-release dividing unit divides a region for release from the first region when the second-region dividing unit has allocated the second regions for all the second processes included in the first process. The region for release is a region other than the second region and to be released. The second-region dividing unit divides the second region regardless of a page basis used as a unit in the memory management. The region-for-release dividing unit divides the region for release on the page basis. | 10-15-2015 |
20160088189 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD FOR THE SAME - An image processing apparatus has at least one standard function to be available upon start-up of the image processing apparatus itself and at least one optional function to be available by settings. The image processing apparatus includes an image input portion that inputs image data, an encoder that encodes the input image data, a main memory that stores the encoded image data, a non-volatile memory that stores a backup copy of the image data stored on the main memory, a settings portion that allows setting the optional function available, and a controller that reserves a memory area for an optional program to execute the available optional function in the main memory, and a memory area for input of the encoded image data in the main memory, the memory area being smaller than a memory area to be reserved if the optional function is unavailable. | 03-24-2016 |