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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2000
Hitoshi Takemoto, Niigata, JP;
NEC Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
The image forming device has a recording unit which records an image data line by line while scanning a recording medium with a laser; a memory circuit for storing the image data corresponding to a plurality of lines of the image data; an operation circuit for dividing the image data stored in the memory circuit per line into blocks and generating an image data block having the number of pixels corresponding to an amount of skew with respect to a main scan line direction of the laser from the recording unit; and a control circuit for selecting pixel data from the image data block in corresponding two blocks of the adjacent two lines and combining the image data block and the selected pixel data to produce a line data to be supplied to the recording unit.