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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2016
Konica Minolta, Inc., Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Takahiro Matsuo, Toyokawa, JP;
So Yano, Ibaraki, JP;
Masayuki Iijima, Okazaki, JP;
Takaki Uemura, Seto, JP;
Akira Taniyama, Toyokawa, JP;
KONICA MINOLTA, INC., Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An optical writing device driving a light-emitting element array, modulating light according to a screening pattern that expresses a dithered image, and performing optical writing by focusing light emitted from the light-emitting element array through a lens array onto a photoreceptor. The optical writing device includes an acquisition unit that acquires a write start position for writing to the photoreceptor in a main scanning direction and a control unit that performs a control when the write start position corresponds to an i-th light-emitting element from a reference position that corresponds to a first light-emitting element in the main scanning direction, i being a positive integer greater than 1, wherein the control unit supplies pixel values to the i-th light-emitting element onwards, the pixel values being assigned from pixels of the screening pattern from an i-th pixel onwards, from a leading pixel of the screening pattern in the main scanning direction.