Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a skew correcting unit that performs skew correction by dividing an input image that has undergone a halftone process into image data in a predetermined skew correction area in a main scanning direction and by shifting the image data in the skew correction area in a sub-scanning direction; an edge detecting unit that detects whether a pixel at a division position is an edge pixel based on concentrations of a set of pixels including the pixel at the division position; a correction area determining unit that, if detected that the pixel at the division position is the edge pixel, determines a correction area that is an area of pixels including the edge pixel to be subjected to concentration correction within the skew correction area; and an edge correcting unit that corrects concentrations of the pixels within the correction area.
Abstract:
An abnormal noise operation control device includes an abnormal noise storage device to store an abnormal noise at the time of a fault of an apparatus in advance, an operation noise acquisition device to acquire an operation noise of the apparatus, an audible sound determination device to determine whether or not the operation noise acquired is audible sound, discomfort noise determination device to determine whether or not the audible sound is a discomfort noise, a fault determination device to determine whether or not the operation noise is abnormal by comparing the operation noise with the abnormal noise, an abnormal noise cause determination device to identify a part causing the operation noise determined as at least one of the discomfort noise and the abnormal noise, and an abnormal noise countermeasures device to restrict operations that use the part and allow operations that do not use the part.
Abstract:
An image forming apparatus capable of minimizing degradation in density correction as a part of skew correction includes a noise-occurrence determining unit, a correction-target-pixel selecting unit, a density correcting unit, and a phase correcting unit. When the noise-occurrence determining unit determines that noise would appear, the density correcting unit performs density correction on a correction target pixel that is determined by the correction-target-pixel selecting unit. The phase correcting unit corrects an output point in time of image data of the density-corrected correction target pixel in a pixel period during which the image data can be output so as to output the image data at a position displaced away from a shift position or toward a shift position.