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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 21, 1995
Yasuhiro Tabata, Kawasaki, JP;
Koji Hikawa, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshimasa Honda, Sagamihara, JP;
Soukichi Araki, Yokohama, JP;
Hiroshi Hosaka, Tokyo, JP;
Yuichi Deguchi, Tokyo, JP;
Naoko Kudo, Yokohama, JP;
Takakazu Nomura, Tokyo, JP;
Eiji Sawamura, Yokohama, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image recording apparatus including a document size detection sensor for recognizing a size of an image to be recorded, an image input section for reading and storing therein the image to be recorded, a paper feeder for feeding recording paper having a specified size, an image forming section for forming an image on recording paper fed from the paper feeder, a control means for calculating a number of sheets of recording paper to be recorded from said total number of pages, an image processing section for executing image processing for displacing a central position of each image so that an edge section of each image will be aligned to an edge of a binding space of each discrete sheet of recording paper, and an image output section for outputting an image processed by the image processing section 108.