Information processing apparatus, image formation apparatus, drawing processing method, and computer product
OwnerHiroshi Ishiharainventor
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Abstract
It is determined whether drawing process corresponding to a graphical drawing instruction, out of a plurality of graphical drawing instructions, can be omitted based on a drawing attribute of a pattern corresponding to the graphical drawing instruction. A selection unit makes the graphical drawing instruction invalid if the drawing omission determination unit determines that the drawing process can be omitted, and makes other graphical drawing instructions valid. An output unit outputs to an information processing apparatus the other graphical drawing instructions to get an image corresponding to the other graphical drawing instructions printed.
Claims69
An information processing apparatus comprising:
- a drawing omission determination unit that determines whether drawing process corresponding to a graphical drawing instruction, out of a plurality of graphical drawing instructions, can be omitted based on a drawing attribute of a pattern corresponding to the graphical drawing instruction;
- a selection unit that makes the graphical drawing instruction invalid if the drawing omission determination unit determines that the drawing process can be omitted, and makes other graphical drawing instructions valid;
- and
- an output unit that outputs to an information processing apparatus the other graphical drawing instructions to get an image corresponding to the other graphical drawing instructions printed.
An image formation apparatus comprising:
- a page memory;
- a drawing omission determination unit that determines whether drawing process corresponding to a graphical drawing instruction, out of a plurality of graphical drawing instructions, can be omitted based on a drawing attribute of a pattern corresponding to the graphical drawing instruction;
- a selection unit that makes the graphical drawing instruction invalid if the drawing omission determination unit determines that the drawing process can be omitted, and makes other graphical drawing instructions valid;
- a drawing unit that performs the drawing process to draws an image onto the page memory based on the other graphical drawing instructions;
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- an image formation unit that forms an image onto a recording medium paper based on the image on the page memory.
A drawing processing method comprising:
- determining whether drawing process corresponding to a plurality of graphical drawing instructions can be omitted based on a drawing attribute of a pattern corresponding to the graphical drawing instruction;
- and
- making the graphical drawing instruction invalid if it is determined at the determining that the drawing process can be omitted, and making other graphical drawing instructions valid.
The drawing processing method according to claim 51, wherein
- the determining includes determining that the drawing process can be omitted when the output status flag is not set and when the drawing attribute of a pattern concerning the graphical drawing instruction does not change the contents of a memory at a drawing destination before and after the drawing process when the memory is in an initialized state even when the drawing process is carried out.
A computer program that makes a computer execute:
- determining whether drawing process corresponding to a plurality of graphical drawing instructions can be omitted based on a drawing attribute of a pattern corresponding to the graphical drawing instruction;
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- making the graphical drawing instruction invalid if it is determined at the determining that the drawing process can be omitted, and making other graphical drawing instructions valid.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.