Patent ID: 9571700
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: G06K,G06T,H04N

Claim:
1. An image processing apparatus, comprising: an image processing circuit which includes: a processor which is configured to: wherein the processor repeatedly inputs the processed image data from the external memory to the output section of the image processing circuit during a repeating operation of forming a same image on a continuous recording medium by the image forming section, and the image processing circuit outputs the processed image data, which is repeatedly input to the output section thereof during the repeating operation, to the image forming section, without again performing the predetermined image processing on the processed image data, wherein, in a case in which the processor corrects the setting of the predetermined image processing in accordance with the predetermined correction condition during the repeating operation, the processor (i) reads out the original image data from the external memory and inputs the original image data to the output image processing section of the image processing circuit, (ii) controls the output image processing section of the image processing circuit to perform the predetermined image processing on the original image data using the corrected setting to generate new processed image data, and (iii) stores the new processed image data in the external memory, and wherein, (a) while the new processed image data is being generated by the output image processing section of the image processing circuit and stored in the external memory, the processor continues reading out the processed image data which was generated before the correction of the setting from the external memory, inputting the processed image data generated before the correction to the output section of the image processing circuit, and controlling the output section of the image processing circuit to output the processed image data generated before the correction to the image forming section, and (b) when all of the new processed image data is generated and stored in the external memory, the processor switches the processed image data to be input to the output section of the image processing circuit from the processed image data generated before the correction to the new processed image data generated after the correction which is stored in the external memory, such that the repeating operation is continued on the basis of the new processed image data.