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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2001
Hiroshi Sunagawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
The image exposing method and apparatus expose a light-sensitive material with the light emitted from a light source matching the spectral sensitivity of the material and modulated with a two-dimensional spatial modulator. The light-sensitive material and the modulator are relatively scanned in the direction of one pixel column in the modulator, as well as, in synchronism with this scanning, the image created by the modulator is also scanned in the scanning direction so as to perform multiple exposures of the material and exposure with part of the pixels in at least one of the pixel columns is rested always irrespective of the image to be recorded such that a maximum quantity of exposure with each of the pixel columns in the scanning direction in equal in each pixel column.