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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2007
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2003
Hongfeng Wei, Garden Grove, CA (US);
Man M. Garg, Cerritos, CA (US);
Hongfeng Wei, Garden Grove, CA (US);
Man M. Garg, Cerritos, CA (US);
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, , JP;
Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, , JP;
Abstract
A pluggable Raster Imaging Processor (RIP) system with two layers. The first layer is the RIP manager layer, which is mainly responsible for load balancing when multiple jobs requiring different types of raster conversion are encountered. The top layer is also responsible for communicating with other modules such as the Job Manager to start the job at the right trigger and obtain the type of rasterization required, and the Print Data Manager to forward the job to the physical image output device. The second layer includes a series of pluggable Raster Image Processors which perform the actual rasterizing of the images. Different Raster Image Processors can be plugged into the controller by registering themselves to the RIP manager layer. When registering, the Raster Image Processor denotes what types of images it can rasterize, such as FAX, PDL, or other formats.