Image input/output control method and image input/output apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHiroyuki Yaguchi
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Abstract
In the case in which an image processing mode is a high-speed copy mode in which follow-up control is possible, setting is made to perform “follow-up control” for setting a mode for not compressing an image or a fixed length compression mode for an image read by a scanner, storing an inputted image in a memory in accordance with the setting, and outputting the image stored in the memory to a printer during scanning. Consequently, image input/output processing from input and storage of an image in the memory until output of the stored image can be performed at high speed.
Claims8
An image input/output control method comprising:
- a storage step of compressing inputted image data with a predetermined compression method according to an image processing mode and storing the compressed image data in a memory;
- an output step of outputting the image data stored in said storage step;
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- a control step of performing control so as to start the output of the image data in said output step while the image data is being stored in the memory in said storage step.
An image input/output apparatus comprising:
- storing means which compresses inputted image data with a predetermined compression method according to an image processing mode and stores the compressed image data in a memory;
- output means which outputs the image data stored by said storing means;
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- control means which performs control so as to start the output of the image data with said output means while the image data is being stored in the memory by said storing means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.