Minolta Company, Ltd.

Eiji Hanada

Nobuhiro Mishima

Munehiro Nakatani

Kazuhiro Ueda

An image processing apparatus capable of outputting high quality image by correcting deviations of respective positions or inclinations of a plurality of sheets of document simultaneously placed on a document base and an image forming apparatus connected to the image processing apparatus and capable of forming a copy with no inclination in respect of paper. Image data with the corrected position or corrected inclination is provided by processing the image signal.

Image processing apparatus and image forming apparatus connected to the

An image forming apparatus records an image on a recording medium after correcting a slant of the image according to a type of document sheet or an operating history of the image forming apparatus. Normally, a slant of the document sheet is corrected by bringing one edge of the sheet in contact with a document scale provided on a document platform. When the sheet is of thin paper or sheets of different sizes are mixed, an image signal obtained by scanning a document image is electrically processed so as to correct a slant of an image to be recorded. When the image signal is electrically processed so as to correct the slant of the image to be recorded, the correction of image slant may be based also on the operating history of the image forming apparatus, for example, the total number of sheets transported, the number of times a paper jam has occurred or the cumulative value of the slant angle of the image.

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