Abstract: An image processing method and system is provided wherein a plurality of processors perform a conversion process from a page description language format of data into raster image data, and a printing engine which continuously receives color image data having at least three color components in page unit and prints the at least three color components of color image data on a recording medium in parallel at a constant speed.

Abstract: A segmented imaging sensor having plural output pipelines in correspondence to the number of segments. Discontinuities between segments of the electronic imaging sensor are reduced by providing duplicated pixel values for pixels in an overlap region between segments, and by providing the duplicated pixels to processors that process the output from pipelines whose segments border on the overlap region.

Abstract: Color-correcting data from a segmented imaging sensor having plural sensor segments. The data is stored in plural segment memories each of which corresponds to one of the sensor segments, and each segment memory stores overlap data and non-overlap data from the corresponding sensor segment. The overlap data in each segment memory includes boundary data from a boundary region of the sensor segment for which color correction is performed based at least in part on data from a segment memory for an adjacent sensor segment. The overlap data further includes other data from the segment memory used to color-correct the boundary data. According to the invention, overlap data from at least a first half of the segment memories is loaded into a memory buffer. Alternatively, boundary data from all of the segment memories and non-boundary overlap data from a first half of the segment memories are loaded into the memory buffer, or boundary data from all of the segment memories is loaded into the memory buffer.

Abstract: A decrypting compiler that accepts encrypted source code from a software manufacturer, decrypts the encrypted source code into plain text that is not accessible outside the compiler, and compiles the decrypted source code into linkable binary objects. Because the decrypting compiler decrypts the encrypted source code such that the plain text is not accessible outside the compiler, trade secret and proprietary information from the source code is not easily learned by third-party software developers.