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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2018
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Taichi Takemura, Abiko, JP;
Assignee:
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/00 (2006.01); G06K 15/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01); G03G 15/04 (2006.01); G03G 15/01 (2006.01); G03G 15/32 (2006.01); H04N 1/405 (2006.01); G06K 15/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/04027 (2013.01); G03G 15/0115 (2013.01); G03G 15/326 (2013.01); G03G 15/5029 (2013.01); G06K 15/1881 (2013.01); H04N 1/4055 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image forming apparatus, for performing image forming by transferring and fixing an image formed on an image carrier to a printing material, that selects a smallest dot size of a halftone dot pattern representing a halftone of a highlight region corresponding to a type of the printing material, and uses a screen representing the selected smallest dot size to perform exposure control of the image carrier.