Patent ID: 9086951
Filing Date: 2015-07-21
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image reading apparatus, comprising: an image data compression unit for compressing, of image data and attribute data generated by image reading, the image data; an attribute data compression unit for compressing the attribute data; a memory for securing a page memory region to store the image data compressed by the image data compression unit and the attribute data compressed by the attribute data compression unit, one of the compressed image data and the compressed attribute data being successively written from the beginning of the page memory region toward the end thereof, while the other of the compressed image data and the compressed attribute data being successively written from the end of the page memory region toward the beginning thereof, an end of one of the image data and the attribute data that is given in a case where one page portion of one of the image data and the attribute data compressed at the lowest compression ratio is located at an address lower than that of an end of other of the image data and the attribute data that is given in a case where one page portion of other of the image data and the attribute data compressed at the lowest compression ratio; and a control unit for specifying a writing location for the compressed image data and the compressed attribute data, respectively, and for determining that the page memory region is out of free space when size is reduced to under sum of size of one band portion of the image data corresponding to the lowest compression ratio for the image data and size of one band portion of the attribute data corresponding to the lowest compression ratio for the attribute data and when the end of one of the image data and the attribute data exceeds the end of the other.