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US 5,630,030 AGranted
Output method and apparatus for a recording device
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYoshiaki Kawamura
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Abstract
In an output method and apparatus for a printing device, a plurality of buffers are provided. The method and apparatus can determine data having the highest priority, and preferentially output the determined priority data.
Claims17
An output apparatus comprising:
- input means for receiving data from an external apparatus, the data including information to be output and priority information designated by the external apparatus;
- storage means having a plurality of memories for receiving the data from said input means, and for storing the received data;
- selection means for selecting a memory storing the data having the priority information among all of the data stored in said plurality of memories;
- and
- output means for outputting information to be output from the memory selected by said selection means.
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A printing method comprising the steps of:
- inputting data from an external apparatus, the data including a plurality of sets of information to be output and corresponding priority information designated by the external apparatus;
- and
- selecting sets of information to be output from among the plurality of the received sets of information to be output according to the corresponding priority information designated by the external apparatus.
An output apparatus comprising:
- input means for receiving data from an external apparatus;
- storage means for receiving from said input means a plurality of sets of data, each set of data including information to be output and corresponding priority information designated by the external apparatus, and for storing the received sets of data;
- command means for commanding stopping of an output of one of the plurality of sets of information to be output from said storage means;
- and
- selection means for selecting one of the rest of said plurality of sets of information to be output after a command from said command means.
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An output method comprising the steps of:
- receiving a plurality of sets of data from an external apparatus, each set of data including a set of information to be output and corresponding priority information designated by the external apparatus;
- receiving a command for stopping an output;
- and
- selecting one of the plurality of sets of information to be output after the command receiving step.
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An output apparatus comprising:
- input means for receiving data from an external apparatus, the data including information to be output and priority information designated by the external apparatus;
- storage means having a plurality of memories for receiving the data from said input means, and for storing the received data;
- selection means for selecting a first memory storing the data having the priority information among all of the data stored in said plurality of memories;
- judging means for judging whether instruction information instructing stoppage of information output from the first memory selected by said selection means is input or not;
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- output control means for selecting a second memory which is next highest in priority to the first memory selected by said selection means if the instruction information is judged to be input by said judging means and outputting information of the selected second memory.
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An output method comprising the steps of:
- inputting data from an external apparatus, the data including a plurality of sets of information to be output and corresponding priority information designated by the external apparatus;
- storing the data input from the external apparatus in a plurality of memories;
- selecting a first memory for storing the data based on the priority information designated by the external apparatus;
- judging whether instruction information instructing stoppage of information output from the first memory is input or not;
- and
- selecting a second memory which is next highest in priority to the first memory if it is determined that the instruction information is input and outputting information of the selected second memory.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.