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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2008
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2003
Applicant:
Shunpei Kimura, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Shunpei Kimura, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/12 (2006.01); G06F 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
There is provided an image processing apparatus which can effectively use a memory provided in an image pickup apparatus such as a digital camera or a digital video camera, without causing a shortage of the working memory capacity during image processing of print data, to realize a printing system that has minimized costs and is very flexible. Image data stored in a recording medium is input to the image processing apparatus. An image data format for conversion of the image data is selected according to a size in which the input image data is to be printed out and the input image data is processed in the selected image data format.