Patent ID: 8223388
Filing Date: 2012-07-17
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image data processor comprising: a data analyzing section that receives information specifying a reusable object that is an image object used repeatedly over a plurality of pages, information specifying a variable object that is an image object used once on a particular page, and page description data in page description language describing arrangement positions of image objects by each page formed by the reusable object and the variable object, and that generates object data having image objects specified by the page description data, and layout information having arrangement positions by each page of the image objects specified by the page description data; a rasterizing section that receives the object data generated in the data analyzing section and rasterizes each image object in the object data, thereby generates an object raster that is object data in a rasterized format of each image object; a layout analyzing and processing section that performs: an assembling section that assembles each object raster generated in the rasterizing section, based on the storage layout information generated in the layout analyzing and processing section, for each storage page layout constituting the storage layout information, thereby generating a storage page raster representing a rasterized image in a manner to avoid generation of the same storage page raster; and an output raster joint section that joins storage page rasters generated in the assembling section based on the output joint information by each output page joint information constituting the output joint information, thereby generating an output page raster representing a rasterized image by each output page.