Patent ID: 6972855
Filing Date: 2005-12-06
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus for executing various jobs transmitted from an information processing apparatus, the image forming apparatus comprising: process analysis means for analyzing a process transmitted from said information processing apparatus; job generation means for generating a job according to the analysis of process by said process analysis means; job process means including job management means for managing information constituting a job, binder management means for managing information constituting a binder and document management means for managing information constituting a document, and adapted to process the job generated by said job generation means; document generation means for dividing the job generated by said job generation means into a smaller document unit thereby generating a document; document process means for processing a document generated by said document generation means; page generation means for dividing the document generated by said document generation means into a smaller page unit thereby generating a page; page process means for processing a page generated by said page generation means; band generation means for dividing the page generated by said page generation means into a smaller band unit thereby generating a band; band process means for processing a band generated by said band generation means; and device use request arbitration means for arbitrating the requests for using a device from said document generation means, said document process means, said page process means and said band process means; wherein at least one of said document process means, said page process means and said band process means executes the process according to the formats of input data and output data in said document process means, said page process means and said band process means.