Patent ID: 8649075
Filing Date: 2014-02-11
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An apparatus comprising: a storage unit; a reading unit including a plurality of reading channels corresponding to a plurality of reading areas in a main scanning line direction; a plurality of transfer units corresponding to the plurality of reading channels; an input unit configured to input a plurality of pixel data read by the reading unit; an addition unit configured to add, to each of the plurality of pixel data input by the input unit, first information indicating a reading channel which has read the pixel data; an output unit configured to output each of the plurality of pixel data, to which the first information has been added; and a control unit configured to transmit each of the plurality of pixel data output by the output unit, to one of the plurality of transfer units corresponding to the first information added to each of the plurality of pixel data, wherein each of the plurality of transfer units transfers the plurality of pixel data transmitted by the control unit, to a storage position of the storage unit corresponding to each of the plurality of transfer units.