Konica Corporation

Yoshiyuki Itihara

Satoshi Haneda

Takashi Hasebe

Tetsuya Niitsuma

Noboru Koizumi

In an apparatus for forming an electrostatic latent image in a form of dot for each pixel on a photoreceptor, each pixel has plural color component signals and a dot is formed for each of color component signals in the same imaging unit area. A signal processing circuit processes specific color component signals of pixels neighboring a target pixel to obtain a density distribution around the target pixel, and determines a recording position of the dot in the recording unit area for each of the plural color component signals on the basis of the density distribution.

Color image forming apparatus with density control

An apparatus for forming an electrostatic latent image for each pixel on a photoreceptor, wherein each pixel has an imaging unit area and the dot is formed in the imaging unit area. There are provided types of reference wave signals to provide plural different modulating image signals for each pixel so that the dot can be exposed at different positions in the imaging unit area in accordance with position information obtained by processing image signals of pixels neighboring a target pixel.

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Chohu, Japan

Yoshiyuki Itihara