Information processing apparatus

• US 8,416,430 B2
• Filed: 03/18/2010
• Issued: 04/09/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Inventors: Suzue, Tadashi
• Primary Examiner(s): LETT, THOMAS J
• Application Number:
  US12/726,948
• Publication Number:
  US 20100241833A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,118 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 358/1.13
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/5021 Priority
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5038 considering the execution order of a plurality of tasks, e.g. taking priority or time dependency constraints into consideration scheduling strategies G06F9/4881 and subgroups

Abstract

Disclosed is an information processing apparatus in which various kinds of information are processed in either the real time processing mode or the non-real time processing mode. The apparatus includes an operation display section to accept an inputted instruction, an image processing section to apply a processing to image information and a processor provided with a plurality of same cores. The real-time processing unnecessary process that is related to the operation display section, is fixed onto one of the plurality of same cores so that the one of the plurality of same cores is in charge of controlling the real-time processing unnecessary process, while, the real-time processing necessary process that is related to the image processing section, is fixed onto another one of the plurality of same cores so that the other one of the plurality of same cores is in charge of controlling the real-time processing necessary process.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

an operation display section to accept an inputted instruction in regard to an operation and to display various kinds of screens thereon;

an image processing section to apply a processing to image information; and

a processor that is provided with a plurality of same cores;

wherein a real-time processing unnecessary process that is related to the operation display section and that does not require a real-time processing, is fixed onto one of the plurality of same cores so that the one of the plurality of same cores is in charge of controlling the real-time processing unnecessary process, while, a real-time processing necessary process that is related to the image processing section and that is required to be operationally linked with the real-time processing unnecessary process, is fixed onto another one of the plurality of same cores so that the other one of the plurality of same cores is in charge of controlling the real-time processing necessary process.

2. The information processing apparatus of claim 1,

wherein the real-time processing unnecessary process is such a processing operation that is related to an ejecting operation for ejecting a recording medium onto which an image is formed.

3. The information processing apparatus of claim 1,

wherein the real-time processing unnecessary process is a managing operation for managing a job.

4. The information processing apparatus of claim 1,

wherein the real-time processing unnecessary process is a creating operation for creating a thumbnail image of an image to be formed.

5. The information processing apparatus of claim 1,

wherein the real-time processing unnecessary process is a managing operation for managing an interruption image forming output, or a managing operation for managing a sample image forming output.

6. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

an operation display section to accept an instruction inputted in regard to an operation and to display various kinds of screens thereon;

an image processing section to apply a processing to image information; and

a processor that is provided with a plurality of same cores;

wherein one of the plurality of same cores is in charge of a controlling operation for accepting the instruction inputted from the operation display section, another controlling operation for displaying various kinds of screens onto the operation display section, and still another controlling operation for managing a processing to be conducted in the image processing section as a real-time processing unnecessary processes that does not require a real-time processing, while, another one of the plurality of same cores is in charge of yet another controlling operation for applying the processing to the image information in the image processing section as a real-time processing necessary process that requires a real-time processing.

7. The information processing apparatus of claim 6,

wherein yet the other controlling operation to be conducted by the other one of the plurality of same cores for applying the processing to the image information is such a controlling operation in regard to a process that requires an operation finalization synchronizing with the controlling operation to be conducted by the one of the plurality of same cores.

8. The information processing apparatus of claim 6,

wherein the real-time processing unnecessary process is such a processing operation that is related to an ejecting operation for ejecting a recording medium onto which an image is formed.

9. The information processing apparatus of claim 6,

wherein the real-time processing unnecessary process is a managing operation for managing a job.

10. The information processing apparatus of claim 6,

wherein the real-time processing unnecessary process is a creating operation for creating a thumbnail image of an image to be formed.

11. The information processing apparatus of claim 6,

wherein the real-time processing unnecessary process is a managing operation for managing an interruption image forming output, or a managing operation for managing a sample image forming output.