Patent ID: 6282687
Filing Date: 2001-08-28
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
An image-processing apparatus, which is used in an image-forming apparatus using a disk memory device as an image data memory, comprising:error-predicting means for predicting any error in the disk memory device prior to the occurrence of the error in the disk memory device;image outputting means which, in the case when any error is predicted in the disk memory device by the error-predicting means, outputs image data stored at an area in the disk memory device at which the error is predicted; andstoring-device searching means which, in the case when image data is stored at the area in the disk memory device at which any error has been predicted, searches for another storing device to which the image data is forwarded,wherein the image-outputting means outputs and forwards the image data to the storing device that has been found by the storing-device searching means.