Patent ID: 7502129
Filing Date: 2009-03-10
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image transmission apparatus that sends to specified recipients image data awaiting transmission after subjecting said image data to image processing including one or more operations, said image transmission apparatus comprising: multiple task processors that are respectively responsible for executing one or more of the image processing operations; a designating unit that designates the image processing operation(s) to be performed; a controller that, where multiple recipients are specified with regard to the image data and different image processing operations are specified for the different recipients, controls each task processor such that the nth operation is executed in common for the specified recipients for which all operations up to the nth operation are identical; and a transmission unit that transmits to the specified recipients said image data that has undergone all of the image processing operations designated for the specified recipient, while the controller continues to control each task processor to perform image processing operations on said image data for other specified recipients that have not undergone all of the designated image processing operations.