Discriminating an image data characteristic and controlling storage of the data accordingly
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1. An image processing apparatus comprising:
- reception means for receiving data in a page description language;
development means for analyzing the received data, and converting the received data into first image data representing a first kind of object and second image data representing a second kind of object;
change means for changing the first image data into changed first image data based on an overlapping state of the first kind of object and the second kind of object;
first storage means for storing the changed first image data in a first data format;
second storage means, different from said first storage means, for storing the second image data in a second data format different from the first data format; and
synthesis means for reading and synthesizing together the changed first image data stored in said first storage means and the second image data stored in said second storage means.
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Abstract
An image processing apparatus and method in which plural gradation-information storage units are provided, and at least one of those units is selected to store a given body of gradation information based on command information, such as resolution information. The different units store gradation information in different forms, e.g., compressed and uncompressed.
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1. An image processing apparatus comprising:
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reception means for receiving data in a page description language; development means for analyzing the received data, and converting the received data into first image data representing a first kind of object and second image data representing a second kind of object; change means for changing the first image data into changed first image data based on an overlapping state of the first kind of object and the second kind of object; first storage means for storing the changed first image data in a first data format; second storage means, different from said first storage means, for storing the second image data in a second data format different from the first data format; and synthesis means for reading and synthesizing together the changed first image data stored in said first storage means and the second image data stored in said second storage means. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. An image processing method comprising:
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a reception step of receiving data in a page description language; a development step of analyzing the received data, and converting the received data into first image data representing a first kind of object and second image data representing a second kind of object; a change step of changing the first image data into changed first image data based on an overlapping state of the first kind of object and the second kind of object; a first storage step of storing the changed first image data in a first data format in first storage means; a second storage step of storing the second image data in a second data format different from the first data format in second storage means different from the first storage means; and a synthesis step of reading and synthesizing together the changed first image data stored in said first storage step and the second image data stored in said second storage step.
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