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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2012

Filed:

Apr. 17, 2008
Applicants:

Yasuaki Mitobe, Kanagawa, JP;

Yoshihiro Ohshima, Kanagawa, JP;

Yukiharu Inoue, Kanagawa, JP;

Yoshinori Awata, Kanagawa, JP;

Kazuya Hashimoto, Kanagawa, JP;

Fumio Takatani, Kanagawa, JP;

Inventors:

Yasuaki Mitobe, Kanagawa, JP;

Yoshihiro Ohshima, Kanagawa, JP;

Yukiharu Inoue, Kanagawa, JP;

Yoshinori Awata, Kanagawa, JP;

Kazuya Hashimoto, Kanagawa, JP;

Fumio Takatani, Kanagawa, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 15/00 (2006.01); G06F 15/00 (2006.01); G06K 1/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/46 (2006.01); G03F 3/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An image formation system includes I storage units, an assignment unit that assigns to the storage units storage destinations of color component data forming a part of image data, J color component image formation units that form color component images of corresponding colors based on color component data stored in the storage units, and an image formation unit that forms an image of the image data based on the formed color component image, wherein the assignment unit includes a J-color assignment unit that assigns to the I storage units storage destinations of J sets of color component data forming a part of J-color image data, and an L-color assignment unit that assigns a storage destination of L sets of color component data forming a part of L-color image data to N storage units among the I storage units, and each of I, J, and N is a natural number greater than or equal to 2, L is a natural number greater than or equal to 1, L<J, and L<N≦I.


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