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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:
Sep. 03, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 28, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Olympus Optical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/9393 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/9393 ;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus has a recording head consisting of a plurality of recording elements for forming an image on a recording medium on the basis of given image data. A density irregularity characteristics data generating section generates density irregularity characteristics data on the basis of density irregularity data of a pattern generated with use of the recording head, and a plurality of attribute data used for generating the pattern. A density irregularity correction section corrects image data by using the density irregularity characteristics data generated in the density irregularity characteristics data generating section.