In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a communication interface and a processor. The communication interface is to communicate with a plurality of devices. The processor is to: receive compressed data from a first device, wherein the compressed data is associated with visual data captured by sensor(s); perform a current stage of processing on the compressed data using a current CNN, wherein the current stage of processing corresponds to one of a plurality of processing stages associated with the visual data, and wherein the current CNN corresponds to one of a plurality of CNNs associated with the plurality of processing stages; obtain an output associated with the current stage of processing; determine, based on the output, whether processing associated with the visual data is complete; if the processing is complete, output a result associated with the visual data; if the processing is incomplete, transmit the compressed data to a second device.

In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a memory and a processor. The memory is to store visual data associated with a visual representation captured by one or more sensors. The processor is to: obtain the visual data associated with the visual representation captured by the one or more sensors, wherein the visual data comprises uncompressed visual data or compressed visual data; process the visual data using a convolutional neural network (CNN), wherein the CNN comprises a plurality of layers, wherein the plurality of layers comprises a plurality of filters, and wherein the plurality of filters comprises one or more pixel-domain filters to perform processing associated with uncompressed data and one or more compressed-domain filters to perform processing associated with compressed data; and classify the visual data based on an output of the CNN.

In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a communication interface, a memory, and a processor. The communication interface is to communicate with one or more devices. The memory to store a device identity blockchain. The processor is to: receive a device identity transaction from a first device, wherein the device identity transaction comprises a device identity; compute a hash of the device identity; determine, based on the hash, whether the device identity is registered in the device identity blockchain; and upon a determination that the device identity is not registered in the device identity blockchain, add the device identity transaction to the device identity blockchain.

In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a storage device and a processor. The storage device may store a plurality of compressed images comprising one or more compressed master images and one or more compressed slave images. The processor may: identify an uncompressed image; access context information associated with the uncompressed image and the one or more compressed master images; determine, based on the context information, whether the uncompressed image is associated with a corresponding master image; upon a determination that the uncompressed image is associated with the corresponding master image, compress the uncompressed image into a corresponding compressed image with reference to the corresponding master image; upon a determination that the uncompressed image is not associated with the corresponding master image, compress the uncompressed image into the corresponding compressed image without reference to the one or more compressed master images; and store the corresponding compressed image on the storage device.

A method of controlling memory usage in a graphics rendering system. The method comprises converting a plurality of layers of graphical objects to an intermediate format representation, the layers being formed by grouping the graphical objects into a plurality of layers based on a first complexity threshold; and in response to detecting a memory shortage condition in execution of the graphics rendering system, determining a second complexity threshold based on the detected memory shortage condition, the second complexity threshold being lower than the first complexity threshold. The method also comprises identifying a layer of the plurality of layers based on the second complexity threshold, the identified layer being different to a layer which triggered the memory shortage condition, and converting the identified layer of graphical objects to the intermediate format representation to release memory occupied by graphical objects of the identified layer.

An image processing apparatus includes a first processor core configured to allocate a plurality of threads to execute a drawing processing for converting printing object data divided into a plurality of units of printing to printing data, a plurality of second processor cores designated to execute data compression on the printing data converted by the drawing processing, and a storage device in which the compressed printing data are stored. The first processor core allocates a new thread to execute the drawing processing upon determining that the number of the second processor cores in an idle state is greater than the number of threads that are executing the drawing processing by a predetermined number.

An image processing apparatus includes a selecting unit that selects multiple applications from multiple applications that perform first processing of reading an image in a form corresponding to setting values that are set beforehand and that have to be set to execute each application, and perform second processing with regard to the read image, an executing unit that executes the selected multiple applications, and a controller that controls the executing unit to execute the first processing and the second processing by one application alone, and to not execute the first processing but to execute the second processing by another application with regard to the image read by the one application.

A print apparatus is provided that executes a print using print data that is stored in the apparatus, and in addition to executing post-processing on output materials after the printing, deletes the corresponding print data when processing of the print job ends. Here, the print apparatus according to the embodiment deletes the corresponding print data only in a case when the post-processing to all the sheets or the like set in one print job successfully ends.

An image processing apparatus for storing, in an intermediate data memory, intermediate data generated from print data, and processing the intermediate data is provided. The image processing apparatus has a configuration in which, in a case where it is determined that a size of a work memory exceeds a block size after processing for creating a first bit map is started, and where the processing for creating the first bit map is switched to processing for creating a second bit map, when the processing for creating the first bit map is started, processing for creating a bit map is started without delay by using a bit map memory in advance from the work memory.

Provided is an industrial printing system that reprints from an archive of production prints. Industrial printing systems include a plurality of print servers that perform production printing. Any of the print servers includes an archive job generation unit and a reprint unit. The archive job generation unit generates a print job to archive including a content job that is a job for each print component. The reprint unit transmits the content job included in the print job generated by the archive job generation unit to the other print server for reprinting. The content job includes a storage location, which may be in the other print server where the rasterized file in which the printed component was rasterized is stored, and a job ticket for the content job.