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US 11,838,477 B2Granted
Image forming apparatus and control method of image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKenta Usami
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Abstract
A communication I/F of an image generating unit writes settings for an image data to a transitory storage unit by serial communication before the image data is transmitted from the image generating unit to the transitory storage unit. The communication I/F stores partial information of an address used for previous writing in a cache unit, and omits the writing of the partial information of the address used for further writing if the partial information of the address matches the partial information of the stored address.
Claims8
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image generating portion including a serial interface, the serial interface including a cache;
- an image forming portion including a memory configured to store instructions and a processor configured to execute the instructions to control a formation of an image based on image data;
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- a storing circuit arranged between the image generating portion and the image forming portion and being configured to temporarily store the image data,
- wherein the serial interface is configured to write a setting of the image data in the storing circuit, and
- wherein the serial interface is configured (i) to store, in the cache of the serial interface, partial information of an address used in a previous writing in the storing circuit and (ii) to omit writing partial information of an address to be used for a further writing in the storing circuit if the partial information of the address to be used for the further writing matches the partial information of the address, stored in the cache, used in the previous writing.
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A control method for controlling an image forming apparatus including
- an image generating portion including a serial interface that includes a cache, an image forming portion including a memory configured to store instructions and a processor configured to execute the instructions to control a formation of an image based on the image data, and a storing circuit arranged between the image generating portion and the image forming portion and being configured to temporarily store the image data, the control method comprising:
- writing, by the serial interface, a setting of the image data in the storing circuit;
- storing, by the serial interface, in the cache of the serial interface, partial information of an address used in a previous writing in the storing circuit;
- and
- omitting, by the serial interface, writing partial information of an address to be used for a further writing in the storing circuit if the partial information of the address to be used for the further writing matches the partial information of the address, stored in the cache, used in the previous writing.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.