Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Yuki Hara

Takashi Kondo

Masatomo Igarashi

Yozo Yamaguchi

Takuya Ohta

Takuya Ota

A drawing data generation apparatus includes a first intermediate data generation section that generates first intermediate data from formation image data in which a formation image is indicated as a cluster of drawing components, a second intermediate data generation section that generates, from the first intermediate data, second intermediate data indicating drawing content of each line-shaped region of the formation image, and a drawing data generation section that generates, from the second intermediate data, drawing data indicating drawing content of each line-shaped region in a row of pixel data. The second intermediate data generation section selects, based on the first intermediate data, either a first scheme of arranging an overlap of the drawing components and generating the second intermediate data from the cluster of drawing components or a second scheme of expressing and integrating the drawing components as a cluster of the pixels and generating the second intermediate data.

Drawing data generation apparatus

An information processing apparatus includes a drawing resource acquisition unit that segments a common drawing resource in a first memory into drawing resource segments, successively acquires the drawing resource segments from the first memory, and stores the drawing resource segments in a second memory, a drawing data generating unit that generates the drawing data in a format supported by an image forming apparatus, using the drawing resource segments stored in the second memory, and a memory area releasing unit that releases part or whole of a memory area of one drawing resource segment, after the drawing data generating unit has generated the drawing data using the one drawing resource segment and before the drawing resource acquisition unit stores in the second memory another drawing resource segment acquired subsequent to the one drawing resource segment.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for converting print data and releasing memory

A print control apparatus includes a reconfigurable circuit that generates print data by reconfiguring a circuit configuration thereof respectively in response to a multiple image processes and performing the image processes on image data successively, and a reduction image generator that performs control to reconfigure the circuit configuration of the reconfigurable circuit in response to the image process, and generates a reduction image from the image data by performing part of the image processes on the image data using software, in response to command information including a generation method of the reduction image, in parallel with the image process performed by the reconfigurable circuit.

Print control apparatus, print control method, and non-transitory computer readable medium

An image forming apparatus includes a print engine that forms an image on an image formation material, and an image data generating unit that generates bitmap image data of the image. The image data generating unit includes plural reconfigurable processing circuits that are capable of performing any of first image processing and second image processing, and a controller that controls the plural reconfigurable processing circuits. The controller changes a reconfigurable processing circuit among the plural reconfigurable processing circuits from a reconfigurable processing circuit that performs the first image processing to a reconfigurable processing circuit that performs the second image processing, or changes the reconfigurable processing circuit from a reconfigurable processing circuit that performs the second image processing to a reconfigurable processing circuit that performs the first image processing, in accordance with an amount of the first image processing.

Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and computer readable medium storing program

An image processing apparatus includes plural auxiliary processing devices and a distribution section. The plural auxiliary processing devices perform predetermined processing on image data. The distribution section divides image data for one page into plural processing units, and distributes the plural processing units respectively to the auxiliary processing devices. The distribution section calculates the number of divisions indicating the number of pieces into which image data for one page is to be divided, in accordance with the number of auxiliary processing devices, the number of processing units that one auxiliary processing device is capable of simultaneously receiving and processing, and a degree of page parallelism indicating the number of pages of image data to be input while one auxiliary processing device processes image data for one page; divides the image data for one page into processing units; and distributes the processing units respectively to the auxiliary processing devices.

Image processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium

An image processing apparatus includes a reconfigurable processing unit that performs first image processing on first image data and that performs second image processing on second image data after completing the first image processing on the first image data, and a controller that controls the reconfigurable processing unit. The controller controls the reconfigurable processing unit so that preprocessing for performing the second image processing is performed in parallel with a processing operation on the first image data, the processing operation including the first image processing.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer readable medium storing program

An image processing apparatus including an image processing unit, a memory, a setting information writing unit, a printing information writing unit, an image information reading unit, and an instruction unit. The image processing unit dynamically changes a configuration thereof, and performs image processing in accordance with the changed configuration. The memory stores setting information for setting a change of the configuration of the image processing unit, printing information used for image processing to be performed by the image processing unit, and image information generated through image processing performed by the image processing unit. The setting information writing unit writes the setting information to the memory. The printing information writing unit writes the printing information to the memory. The image information reading unit reads the image information from the memory. The instruction unit instructs the image processing unit to start execution of image processing.

Apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium for successive image processing

An image processing apparatus includes an image processing unit, a memory, a determination unit, and a dividing unit. The image processing unit dynamically changes a configuration thereof, and executes image processing in accordance with the changed configuration. The memory includes a pre-processing information memory area, an ongoing-processing information memory area, and a post-processing information memory area. The determination unit determines a division position of printing information used for image processing to be executed by the image processing unit, at which an amount of printing information, an amount of intermediate information corresponding to the printing information, and an amount of image information corresponding to the printing information are less than or equal to memory capacities of the pre-processing information memory area, the ongoing-processing information memory area, and the post-processing information memory area, respectively. The dividing unit divides the printing information in accordance with the division position determined by the determination unit.

Image processing apparatus including an image processing unit, a memory, a determination unit, a dividing unit, and non-transitory computer readable medium

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Yuki Hara