US 2012/0057179 A1 · Image forming apparatus and rendering control method

Abstract

An image forming apparatus includes a parsing part parsing printing data; plural rendering process parts carrying out a rendering process on the parsed printing data; a band memory to which each of the plural rendering process parts carries out the rendering; a rendering control part carrying out rendering control, based on a parsing result of the parsing part, to cause a predetermined one of the plural rendering process parts to generate intermediate data or carry out the rendering to the band memory; and a data memory storing the intermediate data generated by the predetermined one of the plural rendering process parts. Another of the plural rendering process parts carries out the rendering to the band memory using the intermediate data stored in the data memory.

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Dependent claims

An image forming apparatus comprising:

a parsing part configured to parse printing data;
plural rendering process parts configured to carry out a rendering process on the parsed printing data;
a band memory to which each of the plural rendering process parts carries out the rendering;
a rendering control part configured to carry out rendering control, based on a parsing result of the parsing part, to cause a predetermined one of the plural rendering process parts to generate intermediate data or carry out the rendering to the band memory;
and
a data memory configured to store the intermediate data generated by the predetermined one of the plural rendering process parts, wherein
another of the plural rendering process parts carries out the rendering to the band memory by using the intermediate data stored in the data memory.

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A rendering control method for an image forming apparatus that includes plural rendering process parts and a band memory to which each of the plural rendering process parts carries out rendering, the method comprising:

parsing printing data;
carrying out rendering control, based on a result of the parsing, to cause a predetermined one of the plural rendering process parts to generate intermediate data or carry out the rendering to the band memory;
in a case where the intermediate data is generated by the predetermined one of the plural rendering process parts, storing the intermediate data generated by the predetermined one of the plural rendering process part in a data memory;
and
another of the plural rendering process parts carrying out the rendering to the band memory using the intermediate data stored in the data memory.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Image forming apparatus and rendering control method

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Image forming apparatus and rendering control method

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