Patent ID: 8159708
Filing Date: 2012-04-17
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for processing print data, comprising: a graphic-drawing processing unit that performs a rendering process of print data with respect to either one of a band memory and a page memory; an image processing unit that performs at least one of a rotation process for rotating image data and a separation process for separating the image data into to a plurality of images; and a size-determination processing unit that determines whether the separation process is to be performed, based on a measured access time for accessing a memory area of a size corresponding to a height and a width of the image data, wherein wherein the size-determination processing unit determines a first read-write time for performing a read-write operation for a specific number of sequential bytes, and a second read-write time for performing the read-write operation with a single byte the specific number of times, and the size-determination processing unit determines that the separation process is to be performed, if the first read-write time is greater than the second read-write time and the size-determination processing unit determines that the separation process is not to be performed, if the first read-write time equals the second read-write time.