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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 1992
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1991
Fereidoon S Jamzadeh, Fairport, NY (US);
Thomas L Rockwell, Rochester, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for managing the storage of image data in a framestore of an electronic color printing system so as to minimize the storage requirements of the framestore. In such a system, image data is read out from the framestore in a color-separated sequence (R1-Rn; G1-Gn; B1-Bn) which differs substantially from a color-integrated sequence (R1,G1,B1-Rn,Gn,Bn) in which image data is received by the framestore from an input image scanner. According to the invention, values representing such color-integrated data from the image scanner are stored at address locations in the framestore vacated by the immediately preceding data read-out step. Such data management obviates the need for two separate framestores, each being capable of storing a sufficient number of multiple color-separated images to produce a desired array of multicolor images on a single receiver sheet.