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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2017
Filed:
May. 10, 2016
Hiroyuki Suhara, Kangawa, JP;
Masato Iio, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroto Tachibana, Kanagawa, JP;
Yuichi Ueno, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroyuki Suhara, Kangawa, JP;
Masato Iio, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroto Tachibana, Kanagawa, JP;
Yuichi Ueno, Kanagawa, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming method exposes a surface of an image bearer with light according to an image pattern including an image portion to form an electrostatic latent image, and includes: setting, among pixels constituting the image portion, at least a group of pixels existing at a boundary with respect to a non-image portion as a non-exposure pixel group, and at least a group of pixels existing at a boundary with respect to the non-exposure pixel group as a high power exposure pixel group; specifying, among the pixels constituting the image portion, a predetermined pixel as a target pixel, and a group of pixels existing at a boundary with respect to the non-image portion close to the target pixel as a boundary pixel group; and specifying a light power value of the target pixel based on image identification information acquired from the pixels constituting the image portion.