Shinko Electric Industries Co., Ltd.

Japan Nus Co., Ltd.

Fujitsu Corporation

Futjitsu Limited

Yasufumi Ishihara

Satoshi Akutagawa

Masahiro Yumoto

Kiyotaka Mochizuki

Kazuaki Koike

A graphic processing system for accomplishing high-speed processing of data conversion processing by effectively utilizing file information of input graphic data to improve processing efficiency of data processing inside blocks, and by optimizing block division. This system includes a processing portion for dividing input graphic data in a block unit and executing conversion processing of the graphic data to mask production data, and a storage portion having an optimization condition file for storing the input data information, optimization information of the graphic data to be divided by the processing portion, processing result information, etc, capable of updating and registering the optimization information, and comprises the steps of executing graphic processing by utilizing file data when graphic data existing inside the block is approximate to the graphic data information registered to the optimization condition file; scanning the graphic data inside the block so as to judge whether or not the quantity of the graphic data inside the block exceeds a memory capacity in the processing portion for executing the conversion processing, and to judge the density and the property of the graphic data when the graphic data is not approximate to the graphic data information; and dividing the graphic data into optimum blocks so that the data quantity becomes the quantity that can be processed by the processing portion; and storing the divided information, the input graphic data information and the processing result information.

Parallel graphic processing system using a network

In a program storing unit (14), a dedicated processing program relating to at least one type of specific graphic data in the plurality of types of graphic data and a general purpose processing program which can deal with all of the plurality of types of graphic data are stored. A counting unit (16) counts the number of the specific graphic data included in the graphic data stored in the graphic storing unit. A processing unit (18) compares the counted number of the specific graphic data counted by the counting unit with a predetermined reference value. When the counted value is larger than or equal to the reference value, all of the graphic data are processed by the dedicated processing program, and the graphic data, which cannot be dealt with by the dedicated processing program, are processed by the general purpose processing program. When the count value is less than the reference value, all of the graphic data are processed by the general purpose processing program. Thus, the graphic processing time can be reduced.

Graphic processing apparatus

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Tokyo, Japan

Yasufumi Ishihara