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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 05, 2008
Yoshiyuki Komiya, Abiko, JP;
Yoshiyuki Komiya, Abiko, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, , JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus has an image carrier carrying an electrostatic latent image, a charging unit charging the surface of the image carrier, an exposure unit forming an electrostatic latent image by irradiating light onto the charged surface of the image carrier, a developing unit developing the electrostatic latent image formed on the surface of the image carrier using a developing material, and a transfer unit transferring a developer image onto a printing material. The apparatus has also an image correction unit correcting image data inputted to the exposure unit so as to compensate for deformation in the developer image originating in a form of the exposure unit, and a smoothing processing unit carrying out smoothing of an image by controlling the exposure unit so that dots of a size smaller than one pixel are filled with respect to a white image region of the corrected image data.