Patent ID: 9466015
Filing Date: 2016-10-11
CPC Classification: G06K

Claim Text:
1. A method of generating an intermediate representation of a page description, the page description comprising a plurality of graphic commands updating a graphics state, the method comprising: identifying a first sequence of graphic commands from the plurality of graphic commands in the page description, so that a graphics state associated with at least one subsequent second graphic command in the page description is invariant under the first sequence of graphic commands; generating a first display list representation using the first sequence of graphic commands; generating a second display list representation using the second graphic command concurrently with generating the first display list representation, the second display list representation being generated independently from the first sequence of graphic commands; and generating the intermediate representation of the page description using the first display list representation and the second display list representation, at least one portion in the intermediate representation being affected by the first sequence of graphic commands and the second graphic command.