Image processing device

An image processing apparatus comprising:

• image data storing means for storing image data;
• image data operating means for carrying out an operation for inputting image data by a filing function and storing it in said image data storing means or carrying out an operation for reading out the image data stored by said image data storing means and outputting it;
• and
• processing means for processing the image data outputted by said image data operating means, comprising
• image data protecting means for inhibiting the operation by said image data operating means to the image data stored by said image data storing means;
• wherein, when said image data protecting means is operating, the operation of the image data by said image data operating means is limited.

An image processing apparatus comprising:

• image data storing means for temporarily storing image data;
• processing means for reading out the image data stored in said image data storing means and processing it;
• and
• image data operating means for operating the image data stored in said image data storing means so as to be stored in said image data storing means when said image data is processed by said processing means, comprising
• operation changing means for changing the operation of the image data by said image data operating means.

An image processing apparatus comprising:

• image data accepting means for accepting image data;
• and
• image data retaining means for retaining the image data accepted by said image data accepting means, comprising
• limiting means for limiting retaining of the image data by said image data retaining means.

An image processing apparatus comprising:

• image data accepting means for accepting image data;
• image data retaining means for retaining the image data accepted by said image data accepting means;
• processing means for processing the image data accepted by said image data accepting means;
• invalidating means for invalidating image data;
• and
• switching means for switching said invalidating means into the operational condition or the non-operational condition, comprising
• limiting means for limiting retaining of the image data by said image data retaining means when said invalidating means is switched into the operational condition by said switching means.

An image processing apparatus comprising:

• image data accepting means for accepting image data;
• image data retaining means for retaining the image data accepted by said image data accepting means;
• processing means for processing the image data accepted by said image data accepting means;
• and additionally comprising invalidating means for invalidating image data, comprising
• limiting means for limiting retaining of the image data by said image data retaining means when said invalidating means is provided.

An image processing apparatus, comprising:

• condition changing means for individually changing settings of a plurality of processing conditions for processing image data from the standard setting;
• and
• processing means for processing the image data in accordance with the plural processing conditions including the processing condition whose setting is changed by said condition changing means, comprising:
• condition returning means for returning the setting of a predetermined processing condition from among the plural processing conditions, which is changed from the standard setting by said condition changing means, into the standard setting every time the processing of the image data by said processing means is finished.

An image processing apparatus comprising:

• image data accepting means for accepting image data;
• image data retaining means for retaining image data;
• processing condition storing means for storing a plurality of processing conditions upon processing image data;
• and
• processing means for processing, in accordance with each processing condition stored by said processing condition storing means, the image data accepted by said image data accepting means, comprising:
• retaining instruction accepting means for individually accepting a retaining instruction for retaining the image data to be retained in said image data retaining means from among the image data accepted by said image data accepting means;
• and
• means for, when said retaining instruction accepting means accepts the retaining instruction, storing, in said processing condition storing means, the setting of the retaining processing condition indicating whether the image data should be retained or not by said image data retaining means as the setting to retain in said image data retaining means the image data to which the retaining instruction is accepted by said retaining instruction accepting means.