Image forming apparatus, method of controlling drawing processing, and recording medium storing drawing processing control program
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorRina Takahashi
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus provided with a first drawing processor and a second drawing processor, includes a converter to convert a data format of drawing processing data from a data format suitable for the first drawing processor to a data format suitable for the second drawing processor, and a process allocator to control drawing processing based on a processing load on the converter.
Claims14
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a plurality of drawing processors each of which performs drawing processing based on at least an area of print data using drawing processing data to generate image data for print output, the plurality of drawing processors including a first drawing processor and a second drawing processor;
- a converter to convert a data format of the drawing processing data from a data format suitable for the first drawing processor to a data format suitable for the second drawing processor;
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- a process allocator to select the first drawing processor or the second drawing processor to cause the selected one of the first drawing processor and the second drawing processor to perform drawing processing based on the area of print data using the drawing processing data, wherein when the second drawing processor is selected, the process allocator causes the second drawing processor to perform drawing processing using the drawing processing data having the data format converted by the converter.
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a plurality of drawing processors each of which performs drawing processing based on at least an area of print data using drawing processing data to generate image data for print output, the plurality of drawing processors including a first drawing processor and a second drawing processor;
- a converter to convert a data format of the drawing processing data from a data format suitable for the first drawing processor to a data format suitable for the second drawing processor;
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- a process allocator to determine whether to cause the converter to convert the drawing processing data to have the data format suitable for the second drawing processor, when the second drawing processor performs drawing processing based on the area of print data using the drawing processing data.
A non-transitory recording medium storing a plurality of instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform a drawing processing control method, the method comprising:
- selecting a first drawing processor or a second drawing processor to cause the selected one of the first drawing processor and the second drawing processor to perform drawing processing based on at least an area of print data using drawing processing data to generate image data for print output;
- determining whether to convert the drawing processing data to have a data format suitable for the second drawing processor, when the second drawing processor is selected to perform drawing processing based on the area of print data using the drawing processing data;
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- converting a data format of the drawing processing data from a data format suitable for the first drawing processor to the data format suitable for the second drawing processor, when the determining determines to convert the drawing processing data to have the data format suitable for the second drawing processor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.