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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 16, 2016
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Michihiko Yamada, Tsukubamirai, JP;
Assignee:
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/01 (2006.01); G06K 15/00 (2006.01); B41J 2/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01); G06K 15/12 (2006.01); H04N 1/60 (2006.01); B41J 2/525 (2006.01); B41J 2/21 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/0121 (2013.01); B41J 2/21 (2013.01); B41J 2/525 (2013.01); G03G 15/50 (2013.01); G06K 15/129 (2013.01); H04N 1/60 (2013.01); H04N 1/6008 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image forming apparatus according to the present invention is an electrophotographic image forming apparatus that forms an image onto a print medium based on input image data. The image forming apparatus includes a setting unit configured to set, based on component values of multiple colors acquired for each pixel of the image data, a limiting value on a toner amount to use in the image formation for each pixel, and an image forming unit configured to form an image onto the print medium with an amount of toner less than or equal to the set limiting value.