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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2013
Akinori Yamaguchi, Osaka, JP;
Hiroaki Ikeda, Osaka, JP;
Tomohiro Ohshima, Osaka, JP;
Masayuki Hayashi, Osaka, JP;
Tatsuya Miyadera, Kanagawa, JP;
Motohiro Kawanabe, Osaka, JP;
Yoshinori Shirasaki, Osaka, JP;
Akinori Yamaguchi, Osaka, JP;
Hiroaki Ikeda, Osaka, JP;
Tomohiro Ohshima, Osaka, JP;
Masayuki Hayashi, Osaka, JP;
Tatsuya Miyadera, Kanagawa, JP;
Motohiro Kawanabe, Osaka, JP;
Yoshinori Shirasaki, Osaka, JP;
RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus comprises: an image forming unit configured to form an image quality adjustment pattern image on an image carrier to be driven at a predetermined speed; a detector configured to detect the image quality adjustment pattern image; an image quality adjustment controller configured to control image quality adjustment processing in accordance with a detection result by the detector; a speed change unit configured to change an image formation speed indicating a speed at which an image is formed, and an interval change unit configured to change an interval at which the detector acquires a detection result in accordance with a change amount between the image formation speed before changed by the speed change unit and the image formation speed after changed.