Patent ID: 8265430

Claim:
An image processing system, comprising: a plurality of clients; a plurality of servers; a computer including a user application interactively operating with a user and a multi-target controller causing the plurality of clients to synchronously access the plurality of servers in response to a request from the user application, acquire from the plurality of servers a plurality of pieces of target data corresponding to a plurality of sub-regions in a draw region of the user application, and expand the plurality of pieces of target data into a plurality of pieces of draw data, the multi-target controller combining the plurality of pieces of draw data returned from the plurality of clients into single draw data and passing the single draw data to the user application, wherein the multi-target controller causes the plurality of clients to acquire a plurality of pieces of data on foreground, mask, and background of a structured document as the plurality of pieces of target data to draw foreground, mask, background, and composite images of the structured document on the plurality of sub-regions.