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| 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 |
| 20090219566 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, SECURITY CONTROL METHOD AND SECURITY PROCESSING PROGRAM - A method of security control in an image forming apparatus that carries out print processing based on XPS data, which includes, at least, a first step of decompressing compressed XPS data in a secondary storage device (for example, an HDD), a second step of converting the decompressed XPS data into bit map data, a third step of carrying out print processing based on said bit map data, and a fourth step of specifying the elements having levels of importance above a prescribed level, which has been set in advance among constituent elements of said XPS data decompressed in a secondary storage device, and erasing the specified elements by overwriting after said print processing. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090219576 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, PRINT CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus is equipped with at least a first analyzing section to analyze first print setting information included in the print data and described outside the main body of the document data, a second analyzing section to analyze second print setting information included in the main body of the document data, a memory section having a memory area to memorize print setting information, a print setting control section to update print setting information stored in advance as default data in the memory area for each setting item on the basis of the first print setting information and thereafter to allow print setting information of setting items in the predetermined memory area to be updated further on the basis of the second print setting information except the setting items in which the print setting information has been updated on the basis of the first print setting information. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090316167 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM AND IMAGE FORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An image forming apparatus that executes an image forming process based on print data including an execution command of transparency processes to be executed, comprises: a first storage unit to be used when the transparency process is executed; and a control unit for controlling the first number of transparency processes to be executed when a storage capacity of the first storage unit is insufficient to execute the transparency processes to be executed, and causing a display unit to display a preview image to which the second number of executable transparency processes different from the first number has been executed to determine an image being an object for print output based on an instruction by an operator relating to which transparency process is executed. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090316209 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - Disclosed is an information processing apparatus comprising: a storage section to store data; and a control section to detect whether a data access to the storage section exists or not, to detect whether unnecessary data stored in the storage section exists or not, and to overwrite/delete the unnecessary data in a case where the data access does not exist and the unnecessary data exists. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20110063679 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - Disclosed is an image processing apparatus to generate printing data, comprising: a storage section to store the image data and reference data; a printing data generating section to generate the printing data based on the image data and the reference data; and a control section to output an address of the image data and that of the reference data to the printing data generating section, wherein the printing data generating section obtains the data based on the addresses thereof, and stores them in an internal storage section of the printing data generating section, and the control section outputs both of the addresses thereof when storage content stored in the internal storage section does not include the reference data obtained based on the address thereof, and only outputs the address of the image data when the storage content already includes the reference data obtained based on the address thereof. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110235080 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Disclosed is an image processing apparatus including: a control section including a plurality of computing sections, each of the plurality of computing sections to perform language analyzing processing to perform language analysis on PDL data to generate a display list of an object, drawing processing to rasterize an object of the display list, and combining processing to combine data of the rasterized object, to generate printable data based on the PDL data, wherein each of the plurality of computing sections is set to any one of two or more resolutions for rasterizing; the rasterizing in the drawing processing is performed parallel in each of the computing sections at the resolutions set in each computing section; and the combining processing enlarges the data of the rasterized object of a low resolution to the highest resolution and combines the data. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110235105 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - Disclosed is an image forming apparatus which generates print data based on control data for page print inputted from an external device and which forms an image based on the print data. The image forming apparatus includes a control unit having a plurality of arithmetic processing units, and an image forming unit for forming an image based on the print data which is outputted by the control unit. The control unit generates the print data by carrying out a rasterizing process of one page in band unit constituted by a predetermined number of lines based on the control data for page print and sequentially outputs the generated print data at output timings defined in a constant output interval, wherein the rasterizing process is controlled based on whether or not generation of print data is to be completed within the output interval for all of bands in the one page. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110235911 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - The image processing apparatus includes: a storage section including a region to be used when rasterization processing is performed with respect to intermediate language form data created by a band based on page description language form data; a plurality of operation sections; and a control section to perform the rasterization processing with respect to the intermediate language form data by using the operation sections. The control section generates a plurality of segmented regions by dividing the band constituting each pieces of the intermediate language form data into a plurality of pieces based on the number of the operation sections, and assigns a segmented region for executing the rasterization processing among the segmented regions to each of the operation sections. | 09-29-2011 |
