Image forming apparatus, image forming method and recording medium having program recorded thereon
AssigneeKonica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
InventorsMasahiro Ozawa, Fumihito Akiyama
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus including: a memory section having a common storage area that temporarily stores data in an intermediate form, which are generated on the way between image data in a form of page description language and data in a bitmap form obtained by interpreting the image data, and the data in a bitmap form; and a control section configured to monitor a first event that the data in an intermediate form stored in the common storage area have been deleted and a second event that the data in a bitmap form stored in the common storage area have been deleted, and to determine presence or absence of area for the data in an intermediate form to be stored when either of the first and second events occurs.
Claims18
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a memory section having a common storage area that temporarily stores (i) data in an intermediate form as intermediate data, which are generated between image data in a form of page description language (PDL) data and bitmap data in a bitmap form, wherein the intermediate data is obtained by interpreting the image data, and (ii) the bitmap data in the bitmap form;
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- a control section configured to monitor a first event that the intermediate data stored in the common storage area have been deleted and a second event that the bitmap data stored in the common storage area have been deleted, and to determine presence or absence of an area for the intermediate data to be stored when either of the first and second events occurs.
An image forming control method that is operable with a memory section having a common storage area that temporarily stores (i) data in an intermediate form as intermediate data, which are generated between image data in a form of page description language (PDL) data and bitmap data in a bitmap form, wherein the intermediate data is obtained by interpreting the PDL data, and (ii) the bitmap data in the bitmap form, said image forming control method comprising:
- monitoring a first event that the intermediate data stored in the common storage area have been deleted and a second event that the bitmap data stored in the common storage area have been deleted, and
- determining presence or absence of an area for the intermediate data to be stored when either of the first and second events occurs.
A computer-readable recording medium having a program recorded thereon for controlling an image forming apparatus having a common storage area that temporarily stores (i) data in an intermediate form as intermediate data, which are generated between image data in a form of page description language (PDL) data and bitmap data in a bitmap form, wherein the intermediate data is obtained by interpreting the PDL data, and (ii) the bitmap data, said program controlling the computer to function as a control section for:
- monitoring a first event that the intermediate data stored in the common storage area have been deleted and a second event that the bitmap data stored in the common storage area have been deleted, and
- determining presence or absence of an area for the intermediate data to be stored when either of the first event and the second event occurs.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.