Patent ID: 7844129
Filing Date: 2010-11-30
Classification: G06K,G06T

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus connected to a computer network, comprising: a first receiver, arranged to receive a task and an image to be processed by the task from the computer network; a manager, arranged to manage states and performances of computer devices connected to the computer network, to analyze an operation load and distributability of respective image processing contained in the task, and to select the computer device used in distributed processing in each of the image processing based on the analyzing result; a transmitter, arranged to generate and transmit jobs, each of which includes an image subjected to the image processing and divided from the image to be processed and is transmitted to the selected computer device, in accordance with the selection result of the manager; a second receiver, arranged to receive a processed image corresponding to the divided image from the computer device to which the job was transmitted; and an integrator, arranged to integrate processed images received by the second receiver to form one image.