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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 14, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Eiichi Sasaki, Sagamihara, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395109 ; 358519 ;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus which forms an image by dot images. The invention includes a halftoning device for processing of halftone for inputted image data, a judging device for judging characteristics in the neighborhood of a target dot output from the halftoning means, gamma correcting means for correcting the gamma characteristic of image data of the target dot according to the judging by the judging device. Therefore, it is possible to prevent image degradation and to decrease a number of levels of halftone of the printed image.