Patent 7948656 was granted and assigned to Murata Machinery on May, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method of controlling an image processing apparatus comprising the steps of: generating color reduced image data from the color image data; generating monochrome reduced image data from the monochrome image data; and determining the order of generation of the color or monochrome reduced image data when generating both the color reduced image data and the monochrome reduced image data for display.