Method of and system for image processing of user registered data
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1. An image processing apparatus comprising:
- a controller block having a converter for converting scanned image data of an original document to digital image signal, said controller block having an image memory for storing the digital image signal; and
an engine block connected to said controller block for processing the digital image data, said engine block having a temporary memory for storing the digital image data, said engine block retrieving the digital image from said temporary memory for further processing.
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Abstract
In image processing of user registration data such as user-specified stamps, the efficient use of the document data and the user registration data is disclosed for multifunction machines such as copiers, facsimile machines, printers and scanners. The user registration data is scanned, and the scanned image is temporary stored for further processing such as enlargement and reduction. The original document is scanned only once for a series of image processes without being scanned a multiple of times.
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1. An image processing apparatus comprising:
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a controller block having a converter for converting scanned image data of an original document to digital image signal, said controller block having an image memory for storing the digital image signal; and
an engine block connected to said controller block for processing the digital image data, said engine block having a temporary memory for storing the digital image data, said engine block retrieving the digital image from said temporary memory for further processing. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A method of image processing comprising the steps of:
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converting scanned image data of an original document image to a digital image signal in a control block;
processing the digital image to a usable image signal in the control block;
storing the usable image signal in an image memory in the control block;
storing the image signal in a temporary memory in an engine block;
reading the image signal from the temporary memory in response to a request from the control block; and
transferring the image signal from the temporary memory to the control block. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9)
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10. A method of duplicating user specified stamps, comprising the steps of:
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scanning a user specified stamp to generate image data;
storing the image data in a temporary storage;
reading the image data from the temporary storage;
processing the image data read from the temporary storage based upon a parameter; and
repeating said reading and processing steps with a different value in the parameter. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14)
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