| US 7,542,164 B2 | ||
| Common exchange format architecture for color printing in a multi-function system | ||
| Fritz F. Ebner, Redwood City, Calif. (US); Donald J. Curry, Menlo Park, Calif. (US); Francis K. Tse, Rochester, N.Y. (US); Peter A. Crean, Penfield, N.Y. (US); David Birnbaum, Greensboro, N.C. (US); Doron Kletter, San Mateo, Calif. (US); and Robert R. Buckley, Rochester, N.Y. (US) | ||
| Assigned to Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, Conn. (US) | ||
| Filed on Jul. 14, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/890,125. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0012815 A1, Jan. 19, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06F 15/00 (2006.01); H04J 3/02 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 358—1.2 [370/462] | 40 Claims |
| 1. An image processing system for preparing a document image from at least one input device, the document image being formatted
in a first document format, for output in at least one output device, the output document image being formatted in a second
document format, the document image being described by image signals, the system comprising a controller that:
transforms the image signals input by the at least one input device and formatted in the first document format to a common
exchange format, the first document format comprising a document creating format; and
transforms the image signals formatted in the common exchange format to the second document format, the second document format
comprising one of a document viewing format and a document marking format; wherein
the common exchange format is a mixed raster content image,
the image signals formatted in the document creating format comprise synthetic document information, and
transforming the synthetic document information from the at least one input device to the common exchange format comprises:
transforming the synthetic document information to a raster image; and
transforming the raster image into the common exchange format.
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