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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 29, 2016
Naoto Shiraishi, Kanagawa, JP;
Naoto Shiraishi, Kanagawa, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image processing apparatus includes a control circuit and an image processing circuit. The control circuit divides a target image stored in a memory into predetermined units to generate a plurality of block image, generates rendering determination information for each of the plurality of block images, and stores the rendering determination information in the memory. The rendering determination information indicates whether the block image has a pixel value to be rendered. The image processing circuit acquires the generated rendering determination information for at least one block image of the target image from the memory, acquires, if the rendering determination information indicates that the block image has the pixel value to be rendered, the block image corresponding to the rendering determination information from the memory, and performs image processing on the acquired target image to generate rendering information for rendering the target image.