Image forming apparatus having a memory and two operating modes, and method of using same

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 5491557
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07995057

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An image forming apparatus comprises a document transport mechanism for transporting a document to a reading station, an image reading unit for reading an image of the document at the reading station and for outputting image data descriptive of the image of the document, a image forming unit for performing an image formation based on the image data, a memory for storing the image data, a data writing unit for transferring and writing the image data to the memory, and a data reading unit for reading the image data from the storage means in readiness for a transfer of the image data to the image forming unit. A control unit is provided for controlling a data write operation, performed by the data writing unit, and a data read operation, performed by the data reading unit, so as to be accomplished independently and in parallel relation with each other.

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MINOLTA CAMERA KABUSHIKI KAISHAOSAKA

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Muramatsu, Hideo Shinshiro, JP 32 484
Nakajima, Akio Toyokawa, JP 107 1966
Nakatani, Munehiro Toyohashi, JP 58 938

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