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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2008
Yuji Hara, Machida, JP;
Hisashi Ishikawa, Urayasu, JP;
Yuji Hara, Machida, JP;
Hisashi Ishikawa, Urayasu, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image processing apparatus comprises a plurality of processing blocks connected in series, and each respective processing block comprises a processor. In each respective processing block, the processor employs data input into that processing block to perform an image process upon the data. Also, each processing block performs a process upon the processor in response to a command input into the processing block. Each processing block causes an output corresponding to the command that is input after the data to wait until an output of the processor that employed the data input into the processing block prior to the command to perform the process is finished, such that the output of the processor that employed the data to perform the image processing and the output that corresponds to the command is outputted from the processing block in an order whereby the data and the command are input.