Patent ID: 7777906
Filing Date: 2010-08-17
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An information processing system connectable to an image processing apparatus, comprising: a plurality of processing modules; and a management module, wherein said management module receives image data read by an image scanner equipped in the image processing apparatus, and then divides the received image data, each of the plurality of processing modules executes distributed image conversion processing of a format of each divided image data divided by said management module into a predetermined format using profile information of said image processing apparatus, and said information processing system stores the image data into a storage unit, the image data having been converted into the predetermined format by the distributed image conversion processing which was executed by the plurality of processing modules, and wherein said system is further connectable to an other image processing apparatus other than said image processing apparatus, and when an instruction is made at the other image processing apparatus for printing the stored image data, said plurality of processing modules execute conversion processing of the stored image data having been converted into the predetermined format into a format conforming to a specification of said other image processing apparatus at which the instruction was made using profile information of said other image processing apparatus, and then cause said other image processing apparatus to print the image data converted into the format conforming to the specification of said other image processing apparatus, and wherein, when said management module receives monochrome image data scanned by the scanners of said image processing apparatus, said plurality of processing modules convert image data divided by said management module into multilevel image data, convert a resolution of the multilevel image data into a predetermined resolution, perform a profile conversion of a color space of the multilevel image data of which the resolution has been converted into the L*a*b* color space independent of an image processing apparatus using the profile information of said image processing apparatus, store the image data of which color space has been converted, and when a print instruction to print the stored image in monochrome is made, said plurality of processing modules convert the stored image data of a color space into image data of gray depending on the image processing apparatus at which the print instruction was made using the profile information of the image processing apparatus at which the print instruction was made, convert a resolution of the converted image data of gray into a resolution in accordance with the image processing apparatus at which the print instruction was made, and convert the image data of gray whose resolution is converted into binary image data.