| 摘要 |
An image processing apparatus which achieves a wide variety of processing functions and large-scale processing, even with a small-scale programmable data processing unit, and which enables cost reductions. This image processing apparatus comprises: a programmable data processing unit; a data input unit for inputting image data; a data output unit for outputting processed image data; and a data memory, or the like, for temporarily storing input image data and processed image data. In the data processing unit, a plurality of processing programs are successively loaded, in a prescribed order, and for each processing program thus loaded, a process of reading in image data from the data memory, executing processing according to the processing program and returning the processed image data to the data memory, is repeated. The plurality of processing programs are stored on a storage medium, and a control CPU, for example, successively selects the plurality of processing programs stored on the storage medium in a prescribed order and loads same to the data processing unit.
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