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US 5,291,306 AGranted
Image reproducing apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsIkuo Watanabe, Yasutomo Suzuki
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Abstract
A reproducing apparatus has a memory for storing compressed image data; a unit for supplying the stored data to a reproducing unit for reproducing the stored data as a visual image; and a unit for causing the memory to retain the compressed image data irrespective of the operation of the supplying unit.
Claims14
A reproducing apparatus comprising:
- a) means for receiving compressed data, said receiving means including discriminating means for discriminating that received data is image data;
- b) means for storing compressed data received by said receiving means upon discrimination by said discriminating means that received compressed data is image data;
- c) means for supplying said stored data to reproducing means for reproducing said stored data as a visual image;
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- d) means for causing said storing means to retain said compressed image data both when the supplying means is operative and when said supplying means is inoperative.
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An image reproducing apparatus comprising:
- a) discriminating means for discriminating kinds of given image data input thereto;
- b) retaining means for retaining image data input thereto;
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- c) renewing means for selectively renewing a retaining state of said retaining means according to discrimination by said discriminating means.
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A reproducing apparatus comprising:
- a) discriminating means for discriminating kinds of given data input thereto;
- b) retaining means for retaining data input thereto;
- and
- c) renewing means for selectively renewing a retaining state of said retaining means according to discrimination by said discriminating means.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.