Minolta Company, Ltd.

Toshiya Shirasawa

Atsushi Ishikawa

Kenichi Sawada

Nobuhiro Mishima

Kazuhiro Ishiguro

Mitsuru Obara

Yuji Shinohara

When it is detected that an external device has been connected, the printing unit is controlled so as to form an image according to image data that has been received from the external device. As a result, image forming can be started earlier compared with the case in which image forming is prepared after the image data is transmitted. Accordingly, the user waits a shorter period of time and the usability is improved.

Image forming apparatus, power supply apparatus, and method of supplying power

An accepting unit accepts one or more HTML files and stores them in a storing unit. A data extracting unit reads each HTML file from the storing unit, detects a keyword corresponding to a receiver in the HTML file, and extracts data that contains the keyword from the HTML file. A data combining unit stores the extracted data to a corresponding buffer in the storing unit, among buffers which have been reserved for multiple receivers. Once the extraction of data from each HTML file has completed for all receivers, a sending unit sends the data stored in the buffers to the corresponding receivers.

Method and device for extracting data for attachment to a mail message

A data processing system has the following construction in order to achieve high speed data processing with reduced memory capacity. There are provided a memory to store a plurality of pieces of sequentially input data to be processed, a plurality of processors to execute a series of processings, e.g., Log conversion, MTF correction, gamma correction and binarization in this order to the data to be processed stored in the memory in the order of input, and a state control portion to determine which processing is stagnant by monitoring the progress of a processing by each of said plurality of processors and prohibit a processor executing a processing succeeding to a processing determined as being stagnant from accessing the memory. Processings by the plurality of processors are executed asynchronously and the plurality of processors share the memory.

Data processing system having plurality of processors and executing series of processings in prescribed order

In order to provide a data processing system processing data at a high speed and having a high performance, the data processing system has the following construction. The data processing system includes a plurality of MPUs which execute a series of processings to data to be processed in a prescribed order, and a data flow control portion which determines the progress of a processing in each of the plurality of processings and changes the processings executed by each of the plurality of processors if there is a delayed processing, and processings by the plurality of MPUs are executed asynchronously. If the loads of the plurality of MPUs change based on difference in data, the loads of the plurality of MPUs are equalized.

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Toyokawa, Japan

Toshiya Shirasawa