Patent ID: 7589867
Filing Date: 2009-09-15
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image data flow producing system that performs production of an image data flow that is formed by plural processing units for performing predetermined processing for image data and sequentially passes processing results in processing units at pre-stages to processing units at post-stages as inputs to the processing units at the latter stages to thereby apply a series of processing to image data to be processed, the image data flow producing system comprising: an input attribute acquiring unit that acquires attribute information of image data that should be inputted to a processing unit at a front stage among the plural processing units forming the image data flow to be produced; an output attribute acquiring unit that acquires attribute information of image data that should be outputted from a processing unit at a last stage among the plural processing units forming the image data flow to be produced; and an image data flow producing unit that determines, based on the attribute information acquired by the input attribute acquiring unit and the attribute information acquired by the output attribute acquiring unit, whether or not it is possible to combine a set of the processing units and selects a specific set of the processing units based on the determination to thereby produce an image data flow for outputting image data having the attribute information acquired by the output attribute acquiring unit when image data having the attribute information acquired by the input attribute acquiring unit is inputted.