| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a situation where, due to a request of image processing to a hardware image processing device by a software RIP module, the acquisition of a processing result gets delayed more than software conversion processing means itself executes the image processing. <P>SOLUTION: A processing execution control unit 230 refers to image processing device management information 232 when a request of image processing arrives from software RIP modules 210A-C, and estimates a time required until the completion of the image processing relating to the request for each of an image processing device 220 and image processing software 212 of the RIP modules 210 of the request sources. In this estimation, the time until the processing completion is estimated based on the performance ratio of the image processing device 220 and the image processing software 212, the number of requests or the number of pixels of each request in a queue of the image processing device 220, and the like. Then, the earlier one to complete the image processing is instructed to perform the image processing relating to the request. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT |
