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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2024

Filed:

Aug. 23, 2023
Applicant:

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Yuki Horiuchi, Shizuoka, JP;

Go Araki, Shizuoka, JP;

Go Shindo, Shizuoka, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 15/02 (2006.01); G03G 15/043 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 15/1823 (2013.01); G03G 15/043 (2013.01);
Abstract

An image forming apparatus includes a unit configured to determine a first region, which is within a range from where a distance from a first edge of an image is a first value to a second value, and a second region, which is within a range from where a distance from the first edge is the second value to a third value; and a decision unit configured to, for each of a plurality of first pixels included in the first region and a plurality of second pixels included in the second region, decide an amount of reduction from an exposure amount, wherein the decision unit makes the amount of reduction of each of the plurality of first pixels greater than the amount of reduction of each of the plurality of second pixels.


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