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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2007
Rie Nakamura, Kanagawa, JP;
Miki Kouchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Tetsuo Asakawa, Tokyo, JP;
Akihiro Kakoi, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshinori Furuichi, Kanagawa, JP;
Daisuke Noguchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Rie Nakamura, Kanagawa, JP;
Miki Kouchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Tetsuo Asakawa, Tokyo, JP;
Akihiro Kakoi, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshinori Furuichi, Kanagawa, JP;
Daisuke Noguchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus is disclosed. The image forming apparatus comprises an input unit through which a condition for reading image data of a document is input, a reading unit to read the image data under the reading condition, a first storage unit to store the image data read by the reading unit, a second storage unit to store information indicative of a relationship between the reading condition and an estimated volume of the image data to be stored in the first storage unit, a data volume estimating unit that estimates a volume of the image data to be read based on the reading condition and the information stored in the second storage unit, and a determining unit to determine whether to read the image data based on the estimated data volume and a volume of the image data that have already been stored in the first storage unit.