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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2013
Naoto Ueda, Ibaraki, JP;
Makoto Nakura, Ibaraki, JP;
Shingo Takai, Ibaraki, JP;
Satoshi Ueda, Ibaraki, JP;
Koichi Kudo, Kanagawa, JP;
Naoto Ueda, Ibaraki, JP;
Makoto Nakura, Ibaraki, JP;
Shingo Takai, Ibaraki, JP;
Satoshi Ueda, Ibaraki, JP;
Koichi Kudo, Kanagawa, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording medium; a width detector that detects positions of side edges of the recording medium in a width direction, which is orthogonal to a conveying direction in which the recording medium is conveyed, at multiple detection positions along the conveying direction; a shape calculator that calculates angles between the conveying direction and straight lines each connecting the positions of the same side edge detected at the multiple detection positions and calculates a shape of the recording medium based on the angles; and a correction unit that corrects image data of the image to be formed by the image forming unit based on the calculated shape of the recording medium.