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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2010
Applicant:
Kozo Tao, Osaka, JP;
Inventor:
Kozo Tao, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/12 (2006.01); G06F 15/00 (2006.01); G06K 3/12 (2006.01); G06K 15/02 (2006.01); G06K 9/54 (2006.01); H03B 1/66 (2006.01); G09G 5/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An image forming apparatus including: a video memory; a load management unit that loads page data on a print image into the video memory page by page; a print engine that performs printing using the page data stored in the video memory; and a main management unit that, when printing of a page is completed as part of an electronic sort process, causes the video memory to retain the page data if there is a subsequent page to be printed using the same page data as that on the page, and deletes the page data from the video memory if there is no subsequent page to be printed using the same page data as that on the page.