Patent ID: 6850995

Claim:
An input/output control apparatus comprising: a first bus; a second bus; a memory connected to said first bus and said second bus; an image scanner connected with said first bus; a control unit, adapted to control a scanning process of said scanner and a displaying process, wherein said control unit is selectively connected with said first bus and said second bus; a printer connected with said first bus; and an output unit connected to said second bus, wherein said first bus is used to transfer at least one of image data scanned by said image scanner and image data to be printed by said printer, and said second bus is used to transfer image data to be output by said output unit, wherein transfer of the image data to be scanned by said scanner to said memory by way of said first bus is performed in parallel with transfer of the image data to be output by said output unit from said memory to said output unit by way of said second bus, and wherein said control unit controls the displaying process using said second bus in parallel with the scanning process using said first bus.