公开(公告)号：US06867872B1

公开(公告)日：2005-03-15

申请号：US09650670

申请日：2000-08-30

申请人： Yusaku Kurihara ,  Makoto Sano ,  Shigeru Tsukimura

发明人： Yusaku Kurihara ,  Makoto Sano ,  Shigeru Tsukimura

IPC分类号： G06F3/12 ,  B41J5/44 ,  G06F15/00 ,  G06K15/02

CPC分类号： G06K15/02 ,  G06K15/1823 ,  G06K15/1827 ,  G06K15/1828

摘要： The present invention provides an image processing apparatus and an image processing method that enable efficient use of code information storage areas and can rapidly process code information to render characters. A character data management unit stores reference information for referencing the shape data of a character indicated by inputted character data in an intermediate code buffer in association with an intermediate code. Thereby, a data amount of the intermediate code buffer is reduced. At the same time, reference information for referencing the intermediate code is stored in a font cache buffer in association with the character shape data. By dint of the mutual reference, when character shape data is to be saved from, e.g., the font cache buffer to the intermediate code buffer, intermediate codes referencing the shape data can be determined from reference information of the character shape data and reference information of the intermediate codes can be modified, so that processing can be performed easily and rapidly.

摘要翻译： 本发明提供一种图像处理装置和图像处理方法，其能够有效地使用代码信息存储区域并且可以快速处理代码信息以呈现字符。 字符数据管理单元将用于将由输入的字符数据指示的字符的形状数据引用到与中间代码相关联的中间代码缓冲器中的参考信息。 从而减少中间代码缓冲器的数据量。 同时，用于引用中间代码的参考信息与字符形状数据相关联地存储在字体高速缓冲存储器中。 通过相互参考，当将字符形状数据从例如字体缓存缓冲器保存到中间代码缓冲器时，可以根据字符形状数据和参考信息的参考信息来确定参考形状数据的中间代码 可以修改中间代码，使得可以容易且快速地执行处理。