The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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:
Jul. 14, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2014
Konica Minolta, Inc., Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Tomohiro Kiriyama, Kofu, JP;
KONICA MINOLTA, INC., Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section configured to form an image on a sheet and a control section configured to control image formation at the image forming section and is connectable to a reading apparatus and a sheet processing apparatus. The control section includes a function to compare image data for image formation at the time of forming an image on the sheet at the image forming section with read-out image data produced from an image read out from the sheet at the reading apparatus; a function to detect an image abnormality from a comparison result; and a function to change a control state of an image forming action in accordance with sheet processing executed at the sheet processing apparatus at the time of having detected the image abnormality.