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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2016
Filed:
May. 26, 2015
Konica Minolta, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Yuji Okugawa, Tokyo, JP;
Katsuyuki Hirata, Tokyo, JP;
KONICA MINOLTA, INC., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In one aspect of the present invention, exposure timings for a plurality of light beams are adjusted on the basis of a toner concentration of a boundary part between line images formed by one light beam and line images formed by another light beam neighboring the one light beam and a toner concentration of a part except the boundary part in a pattern image. Here, in the pattern image, line images extending in the main-scan direction of a photoreceptor are formed while having a predetermined pitch in the sub-scan direction of the photoreceptor and also the boundary part is arranged so as to be shifted from the sub-scan direction of the photoreceptor, by an image forming section.