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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2021
Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Norifumi Miyahara, Torrance, CA (US);
Kunihiko Shimamoto, Torrance, CA (US);
Kendrick Esperanza Wong, Torrance, CA (US);
KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
Provided is an image forming apparatus that speeds up the auto color mode. The image forming apparatus includes a document reading unit that reads a document including a plurality of pages and outputs image data and can determine whether the document is a color document or a monochrome document. In the document read by the document reading unit, when monochrome pages of the first specific number of pages or more continues in the same job, a document determining unit predicts that the subsequent page is also determined to be a monochrome document. When the document is predicted by the document determination unit to be a monochrome document, an image processing unit performs monochrome image processing for the monochrome document on the image data immediately after reading.