Patent ID: 7372592

Claim:
An image processing control method that realizes a function of image processing by downloading a program and data to an image processing unit based on an information from an operating unit, comprising: converting the information from the operating unit into an internal variable based on a request for controlling image processing from a main control software; determining, based on a status of previously acquired resource and current process information, a resource that has to be acquired to make a response to a request for the resource; determining whether the process is executable with the resource requested; converting the internal variable, upon determining that the process is executable with the resource requested, into detailed information required for downloading the program and the data; converting, by a plurality of detailed level converting management units, the detailed information into a plurality of parameters corresponding to the information from the operating unit; linking each of the plurality of detailed level converting management units to only a corresponding download setting request-making unit by referring to the information converted from the operating unit for each image processing; comparing, by a plurality of the download setting request-making units, each individual parameter to only a corresponding previous setting for the individual parameter set in a linked detailed level converting management unit; and downloading only parameters with changed settings to the image processing unit based on a request for executing download.