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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2012
Tatsuya Miyadera, Osaka, JP;
Yoshinori Shirasaki, Osaka, JP;
Motoyoshi Takahashi, Osaka, JP;
Masayuki Hayashi, Osaka, JP;
Kunihiro Komai, Osaka, JP;
Fuminori Tsuchiya, Osaka, JP;
Akinori Yamaguchi, Osaka, JP;
Hiroaki Ikeda, Osaka, JP;
Tatsuya Miyadera, Osaka, JP;
Yoshinori Shirasaki, Osaka, JP;
Motoyoshi Takahashi, Osaka, JP;
Masayuki Hayashi, Osaka, JP;
Kunihiro Komai, Osaka, JP;
Fuminori Tsuchiya, Osaka, JP;
Akinori Yamaguchi, Osaka, JP;
Hiroaki Ikeda, Osaka, JP;
Ricoh Company, Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An exposure control apparatus includes: a plurality of line memories; a processing unit that processes image data by successively recording the image data to the plurality of line memories, and successively reading the image data from the plurality of line memories; and an exposing unit that performs, with an exposure cycle, an exposure process according to the processed image data, and that forms a latent image based on the image data onto an image carrier, wherein the image data is transferred with a cycle which is N times as high as the exposure cycle (N is a natural number), and the processing unit reads the image data N times with the exposure cycle.