Patent ID: 6226102
Filing Date: 2001-05-01
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
An image processing apparatus comprising:feeding means for feeding document sheets to a scanning position one sheet at a time;scanning means for scanning document sheets which are fed by said feeding means and for generating image data of the scanned document sheets;storing means for storing the image data from said scanning means;outputting means for outputting the image data from one of said scanning means and said storing means; andcontrolling means for controlling, after storing image data of a first sheet of the document sheets into said storing means, parallel operations of (a) reading image data of the first sheet of the document sheets from said storing means plural times to form plural copies of the first sheet, and (b) writing image data of a second sheet of the document sheets into said storing means, wherein the controlling means controls the feeding means, the scanning means and the storing means such that, while the image data of the first sheet of the document sheets is being read out from the storing means, the feeding means feeds the second sheet of the document sheets to the scanning position and the storing means stores the image data of the second sheet generated by scanning with the scanning means the second sheet fed by the feeding means.