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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2016
Tomomi Ishimi, Shizuoka, JP;
Shinya Kawahara, Shizuoka, JP;
Toshiaki Asai, Shizuoka, JP;
Katsuya Ohi, Shizuoka, JP;
Tomomi Ishimi, Shizuoka, JP;
Shinya Kawahara, Shizuoka, JP;
Toshiaki Asai, Shizuoka, JP;
Katsuya Ohi, Shizuoka, JP;
RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided is an image processing method, the method including heating a thermoreversible recording medium with laser beams to erase an image which has been recorded on the thermoreversible recording medium, the thermoreversible recording medium reversibly changing between a colored state and a decolored state depending on a heating temperature and a cooling time; heating the thermoreversible recording medium, on which the image has been erased, with the laser beams to record a subsequent image on the thermoreversible recording medium; and measuring at least one of a surface temperature of the thermoreversible recording medium and a recording environmental temperature after a completion of erasing the image but before a beginning of recording the subsequent image to obtain a measured temperature value and controlling a time interval between the completion of erasing the image and the beginning of recording the subsequent image depending on the measured temperature value.