Methods and Systems for Rendering Data

• US 20100245920A1
• Filed: 03/30/2009
• Published: 09/30/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Nguyen, Uoc H., Owen, James E., Henerlau, Paul R.
• Granted Patent: US 8,339,672 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.180
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/00 2D [Two Dimensional] image generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/203 Drawing of straight lines or curves

Abstract

Aspects of the present invention are related to systems and methods for rendering graphical objects in a printing system. According to one aspect of the present invention a graphic list may be partitioned, and the graphic-list partitions may be rendered “out-of-order” or concurrently.

Claims

1. A printing system comprising:

a) a first renderer; and

b) a partition-renderer scheduler for associating a first graphic-list partition with said first renderer based on a partition characteristic of said first graphic-list partition.

2. The printing system as described in claim 1, wherein said associating is further based on a renderer characteristic associated with said first renderer.

3. The printing system as described in claim 1, wherein said partition characteristic is associated with the number of graphical objects in said first graphic-list partition.

4. The printing system as described in claim 1, wherein said partition characteristic is associated with the type of graphical objects in said first graphic-list portion.

5. The printing system as described in claim 1, wherein:

a) said first graphic-list partition comprises a first plurality of graphic-list elements; and

b) said partition characteristic is associated with the overlap status of said first plurality of graphic-list elements.

6. The printing system as described in claim 1, wherein said first renderer is a specialized renderer.

7. The printing system as described in claim 1 further comprising a second renderer.

8. The printing system as described in claim 1, wherein said first renderer and said partition-renderer scheduler reside on a device selected from the group consisting of a host computing device, a print server, a cloud computing device and a printing device.

9. The printing system as described in claim 1, wherein:

a) said first renderer does not reside on a first device; and

b) said partition-renderer schedule does reside on said first device.

10. The printing system as described in claim 1, wherein said first renderer resides on a device selected from the group consisting of a host computing device, a print server, a cloud computing device and a printing device.

11. A printing system comprising:

a) a plurality of renderers; and

b) a partition-renderer scheduler for associating a first graphic-list partition with a first renderer in said plurality of renderers based on a partition characteristic associated with said first graphic-list partition.

12. The printing system as described in claim 11, wherein:

a) a first renderer in said plurality of renderers resides on a first device; and

b) a second renderer in said plurality of renderers does not reside on said first device.

13. The printing system as described in claim 11, wherein:

a) a first renderer in said plurality of renderers comprises a first processing core associated with a first device selected from the group consisting of a host computing device, a print server, a cloud computing device and a printing device; and

b) a second renderer in said plurality of renderers comprises a second processing core associated with said first device.

14. The printing system as described in claim 11, wherein:

a) a first renderer in said plurality of renderers comprises a first specialized renderer associated with text graphical objects;

b) a second renderer in said plurality of renderers comprises a second specialized renderer associated with vector graphical objects; and

c) a third renderer in said plurality of renderers comprises a third specialized renderer associated with pictorial graphical objects.

15. The printing system as described in claim 14, wherein said first renderer resides on a device selected from the group consisting of a host computing device, a print server, a cloud computing device and a printing device.

16. The printing system as described in claim 14, wherein:

a) said second renderer resides on a printing device; and

b) said third renderer resides on said printing device.

17. The printing system as described in claim 11, wherein a first renderer in said plurality of renderers comprises an ASIC.

18. The printing system as described in claim 11, wherein a first renderer in said plurality of renderers comprises a DSP.

19. The printing system as described in claim 11, wherein:

a) a first renderer in said plurality of renderers comprises an ASIC; and

b) a second renderer in said plurality of renderers comprises a DSP.

20. The printing system as described in claim 11, wherein said associating is further based on a renderer characteristic associated with said first renderer.