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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2020
Applicant:
Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Kazumasa Takada, Numazu Shizuoka, JP;
Assignee:
TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/043 (2006.01); G06K 15/14 (2006.01); G06K 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/043 (2013.01); G06K 15/14 (2013.01); G06K 15/16 (2013.01);
Abstract
According to one embodiment, a driving apparatus includes a generating unit and a control unit. The generating unit respectively generates a plurality of pieces of driving data for causing each of a plurality of exposure heads to emit light for forming a plurality of element images. The control unit causes light emission start timings of the plurality of exposure heads based upon each of the plurality of pieces of driving data generated by the generating unit to be different between at least one of the exposure heads and other exposure heads.