Image printing method and printer for segmenting an image to create first data files and first memory blocks and printing each data file using print position information

• US 9,846,827 B2
• Filed: 11/08/2013
• Issued: 12/19/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/27/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: New Founder Holdings Development Limited Liability Company, Beijing Founder Electronics Company Limited (Peking University), Peking University
• Original Assignee: Peking University Founder Group Company Limited (Beijing Peking University Asset Management Company Limited), Beijing Founder Electronics Company Limited (Peking University), Peking University
• Inventors: Liu, Hongyu, Huang, Weiping
• Primary Examiner(s): Tieu, Benny Q
• Assistant Examiner(s): Sabah, Haris
• Application Number:
  US14/914,824
• Publication Number:
  US 20160210542A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,502 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1211 Improving printing performance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1215 achieving increased printing speed, i.e. reducing the time between printing start and printing end
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/122 with regard to computing resources, e.g. memory, CPU
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1241 Dividing a job according to job requirements, e.g. black/white and colour pages, covers and body of books, tabs
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1244 Job translation or job parsing, e.g. page banding
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/128 Direct printing, e.g. sending document file, using memory stick, printing from a camera
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1282 High volume printer device
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/1863 by rasterizing in sub-page segments
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/1886 Storage of the print image data or of parts thereof

Abstract

An image printing method and printer is provided. The method comprises obtaining an original data file of an image to be printed from a database; dividing the original data file into a plurality of first data files and storing the first data files in a plurality of first memory blocks correspondingly; receiving an image printing request, the image printing request carrying first position information of the image to be printed; determining from its position information of the image to be printed second position information contained in the first position information, and filling a first data file corresponding to the second position information to a second memory block from the first memory block where the first data file is located through memory mapping mechanism to form a second data file to be printed; and printing and outputting the second data file in the second memory block.

Claims

1. An image printing method characterized in comprising:

obtaining an original data file of an image to be printed from a database;

according to a size of the original data file, dividing the original data file into a plurality of first data files and storing the first data files in a plurality of first memory blocks correspondingly;

receiving an image printing request, the image printing request carrying first position information of the image to be printed;

for each first data file among the plurality of first data files, determining from its position information of the image to be printed second position information contained in the first position information, and filling a first data file corresponding to the second position information to a second memory block from the first memory block where the first data file is located through memory mapping mechanism to form a second data file to be printed; and

printing and outputting the second data file in the second memory block,

wherein before obtaining the original data file of the image to be printed from the database, the method further comprises;

obtaining a third data file of the image to be printed; and

dividing the third data file into a plurality of data files, screening the divided data file to generate the original data file of the image to be printed and storing it in the database.

2. The method of claim 1, characterized in that, according to the size of the original data file, dividing the original data file into the plurality of first data files comprises:

according to the size of the original data file and the size of the first memory block, dividing the original data file into the plurality of first data files, the size of each of the first data files being the same as the size of the first memory block.

3. The method of claim 1, characterized in that, before obtaining the original data file of the image to be printed from the database, further comprising:

obtaining a third data file of the image to be printed; and

screening the third data file to generate the original data file of the image to be printed and storing it in the database.

4. The method of claim 3, characterized in that after receiving the image printing request, further comprising:

creating the second memory block, the size of the second memory block being the same as that of the original data file corresponding to the first position information of the image to be printed carried in the image printing request.

5. The method of claim 4, characterized in that the position information of the image to be printed comprises coordinates of upper left corners of rectangular images in the image to be printed and lengths and widths of the rectangular images.

6. A printer comprising:

a processor; and

a memory having instructions thereon, which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations of;

obtaining an original data file of an image to be printed from a database;

according to a size of the original data file, dividing the original data file into a plurality of first data files and storing the first data files in a plurality of first memory blocks correspondingly;

receiving an image printing request, the image printing request carrying first position information of the image to be printed;

for each first data file among the plurality of first data files, determining from its position information of the image to be printed second position information contained in the first position information, and filling a first data file corresponding to the second position information to a second memory block from the first memory block where the first data file is located through memory mapping mechanism to form a second data file to be printed;

printing and outputting the second data file in the second memory block,

wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, further cause the processor to perform operations of;

before obtaining the original data file of the image to be printed from the database;

obtaining a third data file of the image to be printed; and

dividing the third data file into a plurality of data files, screening the divided data file to generate the original data file of the image to be printed and storing it in the database.

7. The printer of claim 6, wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, further cause the processor to perform operations of:

according to the size of the original data file and the size of the first memory block, dividing the original data file into the plurality of first data files, the size of each of the first data files being the same as the size of the first memory block.

8. The printer of claim 6, wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, further cause the processor to perform operations of:

creating the second memory block, the size of the second memory block being the same as that of the original data file corresponding to the first position information of the image to be printed carried in the image printing request.

9. The printer of claim 8, wherein the position information of the image to be printed comprises coordinates of upper left corners of rectangular images in the image to be printed and lengths and widths of the rectangular images.