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US 5,847,839 AGranted
Image data output device having memory monitoring
AssigneeMita Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorsMitsuhiro Nakamura, Masaru Satoh
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Abstract
An image data output device for restricting the storage of inputted image data in a memory and successively outputting the inputted image data, when the residual capacity of the memory has reduced to a predetermined value while the image data are being stored in the memory. After the input of the image data has been completed, the image data stored in the memory are read out and outputted.
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An image data output device comprising:
- a memory for storing inputted image data;
- output means for outputting the image data;
- first control means for restricting the storage of the inputted image data in the memory when a residual capacity of the memory decreases to a first predetermined value X while the image data are being stored in the memory, and for causing the output means to successively output unstored input image data without storing the unstored image data in the memory;
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- second control means for reading out the image data stored in the memory and for causing the output means to output the image data thus read out after the output means has completed successive outputting of the unstored input image data.
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A method of outputting image data, comprising the steps of:
- storing inputted image data in a memory;
- restricting the storage of the inputted image data into the memory if a residual capacity of the memory decreases to a first predetermined value X while the image data are being stored into the memory;
- successively outputting unstored inputted image data without storing the unstored inputted image data in the memory if the storage of the inputted image data in the memory is restricted;
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- outputting the image data stored in the memory after successive outputting of the unstored inputted image data has been completed.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.