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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:
Aug. 05, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2012
Applicant:
Yoshihiro Inagaki, Hachioji, JP;
Inventor:
Yoshihiro Inagaki, Hachioji, JP;
Assignee:
Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc., Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/47 (2006.01); G03G 15/043 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/043 (2013.01); G03G 2215/0404 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image forming apparatus having: a light source that emits a beam; a photoreceptor that is scanned with the beam to obtain an electrostatic latent image thereon; and a control unit that determines a light intensity of the beam to be emitted for formation of a pixel, based on a data value for the pixel in image data and data values for its surrounding pixels.