IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM
An image processing system includes a plurality of intermediate data generating sections that analyzes distributed data of document data described in a page description language, and generates intermediate data; and a plurality of drawing data generating sections that acquires the intermediate data from the plurality of intermediate data generating sections and generates drawing data including information of pixels of a print image based on the acquired intermediate data. The plurality of intermediate data generating sections generates the intermediate data by pages of the document data. The plurality of drawing data generating sections corresponds to a plurality of different basic colors and generates the drawing data for the corresponding basic colors.
1 . An image processing system comprising:
a plurality of intermediate data generating sections that analyze distributed data of document data described in a page description language, and generate intermediate data; and
a plurality of drawing data generating sections that acquire the intermediate data from the plurality of intermediate data generating sections and generate drawing data including information of pixels of a print image based on the acquired intermediate data,
wherein the plurality of intermediate data generating sections generate the intermediate data by pages of the document data, and
wherein the plurality of drawing data generating sections correspond to a plurality of different basic colors and generate the drawing data for the corresponding basic colors.
2 . The image processing system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the plurality of intermediate data generating sections generate the intermediate data of the pages by the plurality of different basic colors and output the intermediate data of the basic colors to the drawing data generating sections corresponding to the basic colors, respectively, and
wherein the plurality of drawing data generating sections acquire the intermediate data of the corresponding basic colors from the plurality of intermediate data generating sections, respectively, and generate the drawing data of the corresponding basic colors using the acquired intermediate data.
3 . The image processing system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the plurality of intermediate data generating sections generate the intermediate data of the pages by the plurality of different basic colors and output all the generated intermediate data to the plurality of drawing data generating sections, and
wherein the plurality of drawing data generating sections generate the drawing data of the corresponding basic colors using the intermediate data of the corresponding basic colors out of the intermediate data acquired from the plurality of intermediate data generating sections.
4 . The image processing system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the plurality of intermediate data generating sections generate the intermediate data further including information for specifying common elements which are elements in common in the pages of the document data out of the elements of the document data,
wherein the plurality of drawing data generating sections,
(i) each includes a storage section that stores the drawing data generated in accordance with a drawing command for the common elements included in the acquired intermediate data,
(ii) store the drawing data of the common elements in the storage sections when the drawing data of the common elements included in the intermediate data to be processed from which the drawing data is generated is not stored in the storage sections, and
(iii) generate the drawing data using the drawing data read from the storage sections when the drawing data of the common elements included in the intermediate data to be processed from which the drawing data is generated is stored in the storage sections.
5 . The image processing system according to claim 4 ,
wherein one intermediate data generating section determined in accordance with a predetermined condition out of the plurality of intermediate data generating section that generate the intermediate data of the pages including the common elements in the document data generates the drawing command of the common elements and outputs the drawing command to the plurality of drawing data generating sections, and
the other intermediate data generating sections do not generate the drawing command of the common elements.
6 . The image processing system according to claim 5 ,
wherein the plurality of drawing data generating sections store the drawing command of the common elements generated by the one intermediate data generating section in the storage sections, and
wherein the plurality of drawing data generating sections generate the drawing data using the drawing commands read from the storage sections when the drawing commands of the common elements included in the intermediate data to be processed from which the drawing data is generated are stored in the storage sections.
7 . The image processing system according to claim 4 ,
wherein the intermediate data further includes information indicating a hierarchical relation in the print image between the elements of the document data including the common elements, and
wherein the plurality of drawing data generating sections generate the drawing data further based on the information indicating the hierarchical relation included in the intermediate data.
8 . The image processing system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the intermediate data includes the drawing command indicating a drawing sequence of scanning lines included in the drawing data of each element of the document data.
9 . An information processing method comprising:
by a plurality of intermediate data generating sections, analyzing distributed data of document data described in a page description language, and generating intermediate data; and
by a plurality of drawing data generating sections, acquiring the intermediate data from the plurality of intermediate data generating sections and generating drawing data including information of pixels of a print image based on the acquired intermediate data,
wherein the plurality of intermediate data generating sections generate the intermediate data by pages of the document data, and
wherein the plurality of drawing data generating sections correspond to a plurality of different basic colors and generate the drawing data for the corresponding basic colors.
10 . A computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for processing print data in parallel, the process comprising:
by a plurality of intermediate data generating sections, analyzing distributed data of document data described in a page description language, and generating intermediate data; and
by a plurality of drawing data generating sections, acquiring the intermediate data from the plurality of intermediate data generating sections and generating drawing data including information of pixels of a print image based on the acquired intermediate data,
wherein the plurality of intermediate data generating sections generate the intermediate data by pages of the document data, and
wherein the plurality of drawing data generating sections correspond to a plurality of different basic colors and generate the drawing data for the corresponding basic colors.