摘要:
A toner amount measuring unit (507) irradiates a toner image formed on an image carrying member (106) with light, and an image capturing unit (703,704) captures an image of a reflected waveform according to light reflected by the toner image. Then, an amount of applied toner is calculated based on the peak position or peak height of the reflected waveform in accordance with information associated with the density of the toner image to be formed.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus is provided in which on-surface potential unevenness of an image carrier can be suppressed, and with which an output image having excellent on-surface uniformity of color or the like can be obtained. The image forming apparatus includes: a photoconductive image carrier; charger which charges the image carrier; image exposing unit which exposes an image on a surface of the image carrier after the charging to form a latent electrostatic image; developing unit which develops the latent electrostatic image by adhering toner to the latent electrostatic image to form a toner image; and transfer charger which transfers the obtained toner image to a final supporting member such as plain paper.
摘要:
The present invention further improves gradation characteristics from a highlight region to a high-density region. First, the correction processing receives image data, and an image attribute discrimination discriminates whether the data are related to a character/thin line or others on the basis of attribute information on a pixel of interest. If it is discriminated that the data are related to a character/thin line, a pattern matching to data stored in a line buffer is performed to obtain a pixel distance, and in accordance with the pixel distance, a correction amount is determined on the basis of an LUT set in a correction amount determination. Subsequently, on the basis of the determined correction amount, corrected image data are generated and output to the following step.
摘要:
The present invention further improves gradation characteristics from a highlight region to a high-density region. First, the correction processing receives image data, and an image attribute discrimination discriminates whether the data are related to a character/thin line or others on the basis of attribute information on a pixel of interest. If it is discriminated that the data are related to a character/thin line, a pattern matching to data stored in a line buffer is performed to obtain a pixel distance, and in accordance with the pixel distance, a correction amount is determined on the basis of an LUT set in a correction amount determination. Subsequently, on the basis of the determined correction amount, corrected image data are generated and output to the following step.
摘要:
Good images are formed without density irregularity even if an image supporting body varies with time. Potentials at developing locations after exposing the surface of an a-Si photoconductive body, which are recorded in a potential attenuation characteristic map, are compared with seven ranges A-G obtained by dividing the surface of the a-Si photoconductive body at every 6-volt interval to detect deviations of the potentials from a prescribed potential Vl (step S2). Individual blocks all over the surface of the a-Si photoconductive body are classified to A-G, and the exposure values are set in accordance with A-G so that Vl of the individual blocks on the surface of the a-Si photoconductive body belongs to D range (step S3). An input image undergoes image processing after its entire plane being divided into blocks corresponding to the surface of the photoconductive body (steps S4 and S5). The recorded potential alternation characteristic map is compared with a correspondent initial map recorded when the photoconductive body was new.
摘要:
When pixels in a two-dimensional matrix are divided into lines A and B in the column (or row) direction (sub-scanning direction) and two neighboring pixels in the row (or column) direction are subjected to gradation correction respectively using characteristic curves for lines A and B, the characteristic curve for line B unpreferably has a stepwise characteristic portion having a step when it is stored in an LUT, due to quantization errors unique to digital values. Hence, the characteristic curve for line A is set to be decreased by the amount corresponding to the step.