Patent ID: 7298523

Claim:
A recording apparatus comprising: recording means for recording an image on a recording medium on the basis of recording data; input means for inputting image data from an image data source; image processing means for decoding the image data input by said input means and executing image processing on the decoded image data to generate recording data; and control means for outputting the recording data to said recording means to record an image, wherein said image processing means comprises a digital signal processor and a memory, the digital signal processor comprises means for executing one or more of color space conversion processing, size change processing, color conversion processing, and binarization processing in parallel on a predetermined amount of the image data, and a program implemented by the digital signal processor is arranged in a multitask form for executing a plurality of tasks, the plurality of tasks including at least a task for executing the image processing of said image processing means and a task for inputting image data of said input means.