Abstract: An image forming apparatus and a method of acquiring a memory area are disclosed for preventing a problem that image data cannot be converted due to failure of memory acquisition. The image forming apparatus includes an image data conversion part, a resource management part and an image data management part. The image data conversion part has at least one conversion function to convert a format of image data. The resource management part determines a memory size required for a conversion function to convert the format of the image data. The image data management part acquires a memory area corresponding to the determined memory size.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of erase information each showing whether or not to erase data for each of a plurality of divided areas into which the hard disk is divided, group erase information showing groups grouping the erase information, and erase count information determined based on the group erase information. Based on the erase count information whether or not there is a divided area to erase, the divided area is erased.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an input part inputting image data; a storage part storing the input image data; an output part outputting the stored image data; a conversion part performing conversion on the output image data so that the data format thereof is converted to be suitable for the image output part; an SRC reservation part reserving, in the storage part, an SRC region of a capacity for storing the image data to be subjected to the conversion; a DST reservation part reserving, in the storage part, a DST region for storing the image data of the capacity after the conversion; a region division part dividing at least one of the SRC and DST regions into a plurality of regions; a first storing part storing the input image data in the SRC region; and a second storing part storing the image data after the conversion in the DST region.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of erase information each showing whether or not to erase data for each of a plurality of divided areas into which the hard disk is divided, group erase information showing groups grouping the erase information, and erase count information determined based on the group erase information. Based on the erase count information whether or not there is a divided area to erase, the divided area is erased.

Abstract: A method of transforming an image format of image data stored in an apparatus connected via a network is disclosed. The method includes the steps of providing the apparatus with format information containing image formats of image data that can be transformed, receiving a request for transforming the image format of the image data from the apparatus, acquiring the image data from the apparatus, transforming the image format of the image data acquired from the apparatus thereby to form format-transformed image data, and providing the format-transformed image data to the apparatus. According to the above arrangements, an image transforming apparatus using the method can transform the image format of the image data on behalf of the apparatus.

Abstract: An electronic device, which receives image data, and converts the image data for outputting therefrom, includes a plurality of conversion units configured to convert the image data, a control unit configured to control the conversion units, an image data transfer unit configured to transfer the image data between the control unit and at least one of the conversion units, and a clock unit configured to provide synchronization between the control unit and at least one of the conversion units for transfer of the image data.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an input part inputting image data; a storage part storing the input image data; an output part outputting the stored image data; a conversion part performing conversion on the output image data so that the data format thereof is converted to be suitable for the image output part; an SRC reservation part reserving, in the storage part, an SRC region of a capacity for storing the image data to be subjected to the conversion; a DST reservation part reserving, in the storage part, a DST region for storing the image data of the capacity after the conversion; a region division part dividing at least one of the SRC and DST regions into a plurality of regions; a first storing part storing the input image data in the SRC region; and a second storing part storing the image data after the conversion in the DST region.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus and a method of acquiring a memory area are disclosed for preventing a problem that image data cannot be converted due to failure of memory acquisition. The image forming apparatus includes an image data conversion part, a resource management part and an image data management part. The image data conversion part has at least one conversion function to convert a format of image data. The resource management part determines a memory size required for a conversion function to convert the format of the image data. The image data management part acquires a memory area corresponding to the determined memory size.

Abstract: An image-forming apparatus with a hardware resource used for image formation, a program for performing processing related to the image formation, and a communication part includes a format information acquisition part, a format determination part, and an image data conversion part. The format information acquisition part acquires format information from an apparatus connected to the image-forming apparatus via the communication part. The format information includes information on a format of image data supportable by the connected apparatus. The format determination part determines the transfer-time format of image data to be transferred to the connected apparatus based on the acquired format information. The image data conversion part performs format conversion of the image data to be transferred to the connected apparatus in accordance with the determined transfer-time format of the image data.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming an image, in which hardware resources for use in the forming of the image are provided, and a program runs in respect of the forming of the image. The apparatus includes an image data converting unit which converts a format of image data, and a format unifying unit which unifies a plurality of formats of image data by utilizing the image data converting unit.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprises hardware resources provided for use in image formation, programs performing respective processing related to the image formation, an image-data transforming unit transforming source image data into destination image data, an image-data memory unit having a source area in which the source image data is stored and a destination area in which the destination image data is stored, and an image-data management unit storing the source image data into the image-data memory unit. The image forming apparatus is configured so that while the image-data transforming unit transforms a preceding source image data stored in the image-data memory unit, the image-data management unit stores a following source image, subsequently transformed by the image-data transforming unit, into the image-data memory unit.