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Image processing apparatus and memory access method therefor

US6480296B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateJan 12, 1999
Grant dateNov 12, 2002
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Expiry dateJan 12, 2019

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N1/40
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An image processing apparatus and a memory access method use a memory control circuit to cyclically switch memory-access-job requests from a scanner, a printer, a facsimile machine, a page-description-language circuit, an interface circuit, and a refresh circuit whenever a storage medium in an image memory circuit is accessed.

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