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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 27, 1998
Hideto Kohtani, Hachiohji, JP;
Takashi Nonaka, Kawasaki, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image processing apparatus and method which has a function of adjusting an image processing condition, in accordance with a condition change caused by some reasons, such as time elapsing or circumstance change. According to one aspect, the image processing apparatus reads an original and generates first image data, receives second image data from an external apparatus, processes the first or the second image data for forming an image, judges the necessity of adjusting an image process condition of process means, and adjusts the image processing condition based on the judgement result. However, so as to avoid image differences caused if the adjustment process occurs during interruption of an image process job, in case the necessity of adjusting is judged during an image process job, adjusting means restrains the adjusting operation until the image process job is finished.