System and method for performing broadcast like data communication between networked nodes
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorMitsuhisa Kanaya
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Abstract
A method of transmitting image data from one node to another in a network includes obtaining image data in the node, transmitting the image data to the other node via an IEEE1394 serial bus using one of isochronous transfer and asynchronous stream, and controlling the other node to form an image in accordance with the image data.
Claims13
A networked image data transmitting apparatus comprising:
- an image data obtaining section configured to obtain image data;
- at least one networked image forming apparatus configured to receive the image data and to form an image;
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- a serial bus configured to transmit the image data from the image data obtaining section to the at least one networked image forming apparatus in a broadcast like communication manner.
A networked image forming apparatus connected to a serial bus, comprising:
- an image data receiving section configured to receive image data from a networked image data transmitting apparatus via the serial bus in a broadcast like communication manner;
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- an image forming section configured to form an image in accordance with the image data.
A networked image transmission and formation control apparatus comprising:
- a controller configured to transmit data to at least one networked image forming apparatus via a serial bus in a broadcast like communication manner to form an image with the at least one networked image forming apparatus in accordance with the image data.
A method of transmitting image data from a first node to a second node in a network, comprising:
- obtaining image data from the first node;
- transmitting the image data to the second node via an IEEE1394 serial bus using one of isochronous transfer and asynchronous stream;
- and
- controlling the second node to form an image in accordance with the image data.
A networked image data transmitting apparatus comprising:
- means for obtaining image data;
- means for receive the image data and forming an image based on the image data;
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- a serial bus configured to transmit in a broadcast like communication manner the image data from the means for obtaining image data to the means for receiving image data and forming the image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.