Patent ID: 6552819
Filing Date: 2003-04-22
Classification: G06K,H04N

Abstract:
An image processing apparatus comprising:predicting means for predicting whether or not there is a possibility of overflow such as would preclude a capability of storing image information for one page; rendering means for rendering image data with a unit of band based on image information that has been stored, when said predicting means predicts that there is a possibility of overflow; compressing means for compressing the image data rendered by said rendering means; storing means for storing the image data compressed by said compressing means; expanding means for expanding compressed image data stored by said storing means; reception controlling means for deleting image information that has been used for rendering and for receiving subsequent image information; monitoring means for monitoring an amount of the compressed image data compressed by said compressing means; resolution converting means for converting a resolution of the image data rendered by said rendering means on a basis of the amount of compressed image data monitored by said monitoring means so as to reduce the amount of image data after the compressing by said compressing means; and output means for outputting processed image data, processed by said image processing apparatus, to a printer, wherein said output means comprises means for converting a resolution of image data expanded by said expanding means to a predetermined resolution for printing by a smoothing process to prepare the processed image data to be outputted to the printer when the expanded image data expanded by said expanding means has a low resolution due to the conversion by said resolution converting means.