US Patent 7589867 Image data flow producing system, method and program

To contribute to a reduction in work loads in production of an image data flow, an image data flow producing system includes: an input attribute acquiring unit that acquires attribute information of image data that should be inputted to a processing unit at a front stage among the plural processing units forming the image data flow; an output attribute acquiring unit that acquires attribute information of image data that should be outputted from a processing unit at a last stage among the plural processing units forming the image data flow; and an image data flow producing unit that combines a predetermined plural processing units on the basis of the attribute information to thereby produce an image data flow for outputting image data having the attribute information acquired by the output attribute acquiring unit when image data having the attribute information acquired by the input attribute acquiring unit is inputted.