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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2014
Applicants:
Yuuta Saitoh, Tokyo, JP;
Hidenori Shindo, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Yuuta Saitoh, Tokyo, JP;
Hidenori Shindo, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/12 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/50 (2013.01); H04N 1/00954 (2013.01); H04N 2201/0094 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a resource management part that manages, as a plurality of resources, image data to be used by a plurality of processes concerning a module in the image forming apparatus or a storage area that stores the image data, and one or more units of hardware; and an exclusive control part that, in a case where at least one resource of the plurality of resources is used, carries out exclusive control of the at least one resource, and stops or finishes exclusive control of the module.