Patent ID: 8023143
Filing Date: 2011-09-20
Classification: G06F,G06K,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image-forming system comprising: a band divider that divides an image data piece, which is an image data file of a complete image, into a plurality of bands each containing divided image data wherein for the image data piece the plurality of bands sequentially includes a first data band to a last data band of the divided image data, and the band divider is configured such that one data band of said first to last data bands has a one band data height different from a fixed height of remaining ones of the first to last data bands and is a height changed band; a band memory, a loader that loads the plurality of bands into the band memory in order of a direction orthogonal to a scanning direction of a print engine; and an output unit that sequentially outputs the plurality of bands from the band memory to a print engine at predetermined timing; the band memory including at least two main memories and an auxiliary memory, the at least two main memories sequentially storing fixed-height bands of said image data piece, the auxiliary memory storing only the height changed band of said image data piece to avoid a print overrun error attributable to said image data piece, the main memory being separate from the auxiliary memory such that data from the main memory can be output while data is stored in the auxiliary memory, wherein the main memory stores a same data type as the auxiliary memory, each of the main memory and the auxiliary memory storing bit-mapped data of a band representing a real image to directly control a print engine to print the image.