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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2017
Applicant:
Konica Minolta, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Natsuko Minegishi, Tokyo, JP;
Wataru Watanabe, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroshi Morimoto, Tokyo, JP;
Keiki Katsumata, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuhiro Saito, Aichi, JP;
Hiroki Shibata, Tokyo, JP;
Daiki Watanabe, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
KONICA MINOLTA, INC., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/00 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01); G06K 15/12 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/00005 (2013.01); G03G 15/5041 (2013.01); G06K 15/128 (2013.01); H04N 1/00018 (2013.01); G06T 7/0004 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30144 (2013.01); H04N 1/00185 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image formers each capable of forming, on a sheet, an overlap image and a non-overlap image, a fixer that fixes, on the sheet, a whole image composed of the overlap images and the non-overlap images, and a hardware processor that controls each of the plurality of image formers such that a difference in image at a boundary between the overlap image and the non-overlap image is reduced in the whole image.