Patent ID: 7221466

Claim:
An image processing device comprising: a dividing part which divides compressed image drawing instructions into a plurality of sets of compressed image drawing instructions without decompressing them in such a manner that each set of image drawing instructions can be processed without referring to any other set of image drawing instructions; a distributing part which distributes the plurality of sets of image drawing instructions to a plurality of image production processing parts; and said plurality of image production processing parts each of which generates drawing data for image drawing processing from the plurality of sets of image drawing instructions, wherein the instruction dividing and distributing parts analyze whether or not the image drawing instructions transmitted from the host apparatus are those concerning an image object, and also, an area to be processed or a data amount of the image object is larger than a predetermined reference value, and, when the conditions are met, the compressed image drawing instructions are divided into a plurality of compressed image drawing instructions, and the divided image drawing instructions are distributed into the respective image production processing parts for processing the same, respectively, while, when the conditions are not met, the compressed image drawing instructions are not divided, and are transferred to the image production processing parts as they are.