Konica Corporation

Toru Ichiki

Tomohiro Suzuki

Tetsuya Yamamoto

Masaki Kakutani

Kunio Shijo

Hirohiko Yamazaki

Yasuhiko Yamaguchi

Kenji Okuyama

Kazuo Izumi

Satoru Kashiwada

Koichi Kitamoto

Akihiko Oda

Seiichi Watanabe

Kensaku Ogiwara

An image forming apparatus includes: an image reading device for reading an image of a document to obtain image data; a data communication device connected with a computer for receiving an image data from the computer; a facsimile device connected with a telephone line for receiving an image data through the telephone line; an image memory for storing the image data obtained through the image reading device, the image data obtained through the data communication device, and the image data obtained through the facsimile device; an image memory controller for mediating an access to the image memory in a predetermined priority order for storing and reading the image data among the image reading device, the data communication device, and the facsimile device; and an image forming device for forming the image according to the image data controlled by the image memory controller.

Image forming apparatus

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Hachioji, Japan

Toru Ichiki