Patent ID: 6788830
Filing Date: 2004-09-07
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
An image processing system, comprising:an image reader for reading image data of original documents; a memory which is capable of storing image data of the original documents of a plurality of pages read by said image reader; a first controller which executes a writing of a set of image data of the original documents of a plurality of pages into said memory in a prescribed page order, and repeatedly executes a reading of the set of image data from said memory and an image processing thereof; a detector for detecting insufficiency of empty capacity of said memory; a second controller which, in the event that insufficiency of empty capacity of said memory is detected by said detector during the writing of image data into said memory by said first controller, holds the image data of the original documents of one or a plurality of pages stored in said memory and executes a subsequent image processing by using the image data held in said memory; and a third controller which executes a prescribed processing for a re-reading of image data of the original documents corresponding to the image data not held in said memory among the set of image data by said image reader in the subsequent image processing by said second controller.