Image processing apparatus

US5206741A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Canon Kabushiki Kaisha · JP

Inventors

• Akihiro Shimura · Kawasaki, JP
• Shigeru Ueda · Wako, JP

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 13, 1992
• Grant date: Apr 27, 1993
• Expiry date: Apr 13, 2012

Classification

• Technology area (CPC —): General

Abstract

An image processing apparatus for outputting image data to a printing unit, including an input receives data input from an external unit, an generator generates pixel image data in accordance with the input data, stores the pixel image data, converts the resolution of the pixel image data, and an outputs the pixel image data whose resolution has been converted. In the apparatus the image data generator determines the resolution of the pixel image data when it is stored in accordance with the memory capacity.