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US 2003/0072033 A1Published application
Image data storage system
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorYoshimichi Kanda
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Abstract
A CPU determines whether the intended use of the image data to be stored in a plurality of HDDs has a first-type purpose, which requires storing temporarily stored image data for carrying out output processing of the image data, or a second-type purpose, which requires long-term preservation of the image data. If the first-type intended use is determined, a first-type mode for saving is selected, wherein the image data to be stored are divided and each divided set of image data is stored into one HDD. If the second-type intended use is determined, a second-type mode for saving is selected, wherein the same image data part is saved in a plurality of storage means.
Claims11
An image data storage system, comprising:
- a plurality of storage means for storing image data;
- determination means for determining intended use of the image data that is to be stored at said storage means;
- selection means for selecting an image storing mode for storing said image data into one of said plurality of storage means, wherein the selection is performed based on the determined intended use of the image data;
- and
- data saving means for saving said image data into at least one of said plurality of storage means in accordance with the image storing mode selected by said selection means.
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An image data storage system, comprising:
- a plurality of storage means for storing image data;
- determination means for determining intended use of the image data that is to be stored at said plurality of storage means;
- selection means for selecting an image storing mode for storing said image data into one of said plurality of storage means, wherein the selection is performed based on the determined intended use of the image data;
- and
- data saving means for saving said image data into at least one of said plurality of storage means in accordance with the image storing mode selected by said selection means,
- wherein the image storing mode selected by said selection means stores image data into at least two of said plurality of storage means, each of said at least two of said plurality of storage means storing an identical part of said image data, and
- wherein data other than image data are also stored by said image storing mode selected by said selection means.
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An image data storage system, comprising:
- a plurality of storage means for storing image data;
- determination means for determining intended use of the image data that is to be stored at said plurality of storage means;
- selection means for selecting an image storing mode for storing said image data into one of said plurality of storage means, wherein the selection is performed based on the determined intended use of the image data;
- and
- data saving means for saving said image data into at least one of said plurality of storage means in accordance with the image storing mode selected by said selection means,
- wherein the image storing mode selected by said selection means stores image data into at least two of said plurality of storage means, each of said at least two of said plurality of storage means storing an identical part of said image data, and
- when the data stored by said image storing mode is read out, each said data part is read out from each of said at least two of said plurality of storage means, and determination is made whether said data part read out from one of said plurality of storage means is abnormal data so as to select and output said data part read out from one of said plurality of storage means other than the abnormal data.
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An image data storage system, comprising:
- a plurality of storage means for storing image data;
- determination means for determining intended use of the image data that is to be stored at said plurality of storage means;
- selection means for selecting an image storing mode for storing said image data into one of said plurality of storage means, wherein the selection is performed based on the determined intended use of the image data;
- and
- data saving means for saving said image data into at least one of said plurality of storage means in accordance with the image storing mode selected by said selection means,
- wherein the image storing mode selected by said selection means stores image data into at least two of said plurality of storage means, each of said at least two of said plurality of storage means storing an identical part of said image data, and
- wherein when the image data storage system is initialized and if a certain one of said plurality of storage means that lacks a history of usage is detected based on histories of usage in said plurality of storage means, the image data stored by said image storing mode in another one of said plurality of storage means that has usage history is duplicated into said certain one of said plurality of storage means that lacks said history of usage.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.