Image information processing system

• US 4,727,435 A
• Filed: 09/17/1985
• Issued: 02/23/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/1984
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Mishima, Kenichi, Otani, Masatoshi, Ina, Kenzoh
• Primary Examiner(s): Goldberg, E. A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Foster, Patrick W.
• Application Number:
  US06/776,979
• Time in Patent Office: 889 Days
• Field of Search: 358/296, 358/298, 358/300, 358/256, 358/257, 358/258, 358/78
• US Class Current: 358/296
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00915 Assigning priority to, or interrupting, a particular operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00923 Variably assigning priority H04N1/0092 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/0096 Simultaneous or quasi-simultaneous functioning of a plurality of operations H04N1/32545 takes precedence; multiprogramming arrangements of computers G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32101 Display, printing, storage or transmission of additional information, e.g. ID code, date and time or title
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32122 in a separate device, e.g. in a memory or on a display separate from image data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32363 at the transmitter or at the receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32384 Storage subsequent to an attempted output at the receiver, e.g. in case of printer malfunction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32496 Changing the task performed, e.g. reading and transmitting, receiving and reproducing, copying facsimile mode changing H04N1/333
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/333 Mode signalling or mode changing; Handshaking therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3216 of a job size, e.g. a number of images, pages or copies, size of file, length of message
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3278 Transmission

Abstract

An image information processing system has a reader for reading an original image and generating image data, a recorder for recording an image in accordance with image data; a receiving unit for receiving image data from an external apparatus, and a storage unit for storing image data. In the system, during recording of the image by the recorder based on the image data generated by the reader, the image data received by the receiving unit is transferred via a bus line to be stored in the storage unit.

Claims

1. An image information processing system comprising:

a bus line on which data including image data are transferred;

reading means fer reading an original image and generating image data;

recording means for recording an image in accordance with image data;

input/output control means, connected to said reading means, said recording means and said bus line, for controlling image data transmission therebetween;

receiving means, connected to said bus line, for receiving image data from an external apparatus and supplying received image data to said bus line; and

storage means, connected to said bus line, for storing image data;

wherein, during recording of the image by said recording means based on the image data generated by said reading means, said image data received by said receiving means is transferred via said bus line to be stored in said storage means.

2. An image information processing system according to claim 1, wherein said recording means operates to record the image, after completion of the image recording based on the image data from said reading means in execution, in accordance with the image data stored in said storage means.

3. An image information processing system according to claim 1, further comprising control means for controlling the operation of said system, wherein said control means delivers an operation command via said bus line.

17. An image information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the image data generated by said reading means is transferred to said recording means without passing through said bus line.

18. An image information processing system according to claim 1, wherein said storage means is capable of storing a page of image data.

4. An image information processing system comprising:

reading means for reading an original image and generating image data;

recording means for recording an image in accordance with image data;

receiving means for receiving image data from an external apparatus; and

control means for controlling operation of said system;

6. An image information processing means according to claim 4, further comprising storage means for storing the image data received by said receiving means, wherein said recording means records the image based on the image data read out from said storage means.

8. An image information processing system according to claim 6, further comprising storage means for storing the image data received by said receiving means, wherein said recording means records the image based on the image data stored in said storage means.

10. An image information processing system according to claim 8, wherein said condition is information on an original size.

11. An image information processing system according to claim 8, wherein the image recording based on the image data from said reading means is carried out after completion of the image recording in execution.

13. An image information processing system according to claim 11, wherein said storage means is capable of storing a page of said image data.

14. An image information processing system according to claim 11, wherein said communication means is operable to transmit the image data upon compression thereof and to expand compressed image data received by said communication means.

15. An image information processing system according to claim 11, wherein, in the case of a malfunction of said reading means or said reading means, said control means permits said storage means to be used for another processing which is not involved in the malfunction.

16. An image information processing system according to claim 11, wherein said reading means, said recording means, said communication means, said storage means and said control means are connected with a bus line.

19. An image information processing system according to claim 4, wherein said receiving means is operable to expand the received compressed image data.

20. An image information processing system according to claim 4, wherein said control means enables the image recording condition based on the image data from said reading means to be set before completion of the image recording based on the image data received by said receiving means.

21. An image information processing system according to claim 4, wherein said reading means, said recording means, said receiving means and said control means are connected with a bus line.

23. An image information processing system according to claim 6, wherein said receiving means is operable to expand the received compressed image data.

24. An image information processing system according to claim 6, wherein said reading means, said recording means, said receiving means and said control means are connected with a bus line.

25. An image information processing system according to claim 8, further comprising storage means for storing the image data received by said receiving means and supplying stored image data to said recording means.

26. An image information processing system according to claim 8, wherein said receiving means is operable to expand the received compressed image data.

27. An image information processing system according to claim 8, wherein said reading means, said recording means, said receiving means and said control means are connected with a bus line.

5. wherein, during recording of said image by said recording means based on said image data received by said receiving means, if there is a request for image recording by said recording means based on the image data from said reading means, said control means retains said request and causes said recording menas to perform the image recording based on the image data from said reading means, in accordance with the retained request, after completion of the image recording based on the image data received by said receiving means inexecution.

7. An image information processing system comprising:

reading means for reading an original image and generating image data;

recording means for recording an image in accordance with image data;

receiving means for receiving image data from an external apparatus; and

control means for controlling operation of said system;

wherein, during a plurality of image recordings by said recording means based on the image data generated by said reading means, if there is a request for image recording by said recording means based on the image data received by said receiving means, said control means performs the control operation in first and second modes, wherein in the first mode, said control means causes said recording means to perform the image recording based on the image data received by said receiving means after completion of the plurality of number of image recordings in execution, and in the second mode, said control means causes said recording means to perform the image recording based on the image data received by said receiving means before completion of the plurality of image recordings in execution.

22. An image information processing system according to claim 7, wherein said storage means stores the image data received by said receiving means, during the image recordings based on the image data generated by said reading means.

9. An image information processing system comprising:

reading means for reading an original image and generating image data;

recording means for recording an image in accordance with image data;

receiving means for receiving image data from an external apparatus; and

control means for controlling operation of said system;

wherein, during recording of the image by said recording means based on the image data received by said receiving means, if there is a request for image recording by said recording means based on the image data from said reading means, said control means enables an image recording condition based on said image data from said reading means to be set during recording of the image based on the image data received by said receiving means.

12. An image information processing system comprising:

reading means for reading an original image and generating image data;

recording means for recording an image in accordance with image data;

communication means for transmission and reception image data over an external apparatus;

storage means for storing image data; and

control means for controlling operation of said system;

wherein said image data received by said communication means or said image data from said reading means is stored in said storage means and thereafter transferred to said recording means or said communication means, and in the case of a malfunction of said reading means or said recording means during execution of the processing using said storing means, said control means permits said storage means to be used for another processing.