Patent ID: 8724153
Filing Date: 2014-05-13
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus including at least one processor and memory communicatively-coupled via a bus that transmits a print job including input image data to an image processing apparatus to which the information processing apparatus is connected, comprising: a determination unit configured to determine whether or not a piece of the image data being included in the input print job and having a size smaller than a predetermined threshold is instructed to be reduced when the image is outputted by the image processing apparatus; a color value determination unit configured to determine whether the image data consists of pixels having a same color value; and a replacement unit configured to replace the pieces of the image data in the print job, which have the size smaller than the predetermined threshold and instructed to be reduced, with pieces of image data each having a size smaller than the piece of the input image, in the case that the color value determination unit has determined that the image data consists of pixels having the same color value; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the replaced pieces of the image data to the image processing apparatus.