Output control system for interpreting input data according to a specific control language based upon outputs from a plurality of control language determining devices

摘要

An output controlling device for reducing a processing time and substantially reducing erroneous determinations. In an image recording apparatus or the like, when a control language describing input data sent from a higher level apparatus is determined, determining rules set for respective control languages are consecutively applied. Since an optimum determining rule can be applied with respect to each control language, it is possible to simultaneously attain a reduction in the processing time and a lowering of the possibility of erroneous determination as compared with a case where the same determining rule is applied uniformly. In addition, if command groups are classified, and different determining rules are used for respective groups, the case is equivalent to a case where a plurality of determining rules are applied with respect to each control language, so that a further reduction in the processing time and a further lowering of the possibility of erroneous determination can be attained.