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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 1998
Filed:
Nov. 30, 1995
Mita Industrial Co. Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An image gradation setting device includes a control density level determining portion for determining based on received image data a control density level indicative of a light amount for each of the first to n-th imaging areas of one imaging element. The control density level determining portion allots only to the first imaging area a control density level in accordance with received image data if the received image data is equal to or lower than a predetermined reference density level, and respectively allots to the first to n-th imaging areas control density levels in accordance with received image data if the received image data is larger than the predetermined reference density level, a minimum control density level of each of the second to n-th imaging areas being made to be larger than a particular control level equivalent to the particular light amount, and a maximum control density level of each of the first to (n-1)-th imaging areas being made to be the particular control level smaller than a control density level equivalent to the predetermined reference density level.