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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2020
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Yusuke Horishita, Fujisawa, JP;
Kanako Ogura, Kamakura, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention is directed to to an image forming apparatus including a system control module that controls the image forming apparatus; a first memory device used by the system control module; an image processing module that processes image data to be inputted to the image forming apparatus; a second memory device in which image data processed by the image processing module is stored via an image memory bus; and a memory controller that transfers and writes the image data processed by the image processing module into the first memory device without going through the image memory bus, and issues an end interrupt to the system control module each time image data of a predetermined size has been written.