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7639273 Image forming apparatus  
An image forming apparatus which has a plurality of image forming stations arranged in parallel, each of the image forming stations having a photosensitive drum, and which forms a desired image by...
7623147 Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus using the same  
An optical scanning device includes a synchronism detecting element for detecting a light beam scanningly deflected by a deflecting surface of an optical deflector, to determine an image-writing...
7602410 Apparatus for and method of forming image using oscillation mirror  
As a scanning light beam which is scanning and traveling away from an effective image region moves passed the location of a sensor, a horizontal synchronizing signal Hsync is obtained as a first...
7601949 Optical scanner device  
An optical scanner device, comprising a scanning unit, which casts irradiation light emitted from a light source in an arbitrary direction to scan an observation object, an objective lens system,...
7598972 Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus  
A deflecting unit deflects a light beam emitted by each of a plurality of light-beam emitting units independently to scan surfaces of different bodies to be scanned. Each of a plurality of...
7595812 Image forming apparatus, printer apparatus, facsimile apparatus, and copying machine  
An image forming apparatus includes a light source that emits a light beam in a main scanning direction according to image data to be used for image formation, a control unit that controls the...
7589756 Optical scanning device, image forming apparatus, optical scanning correcting method, and image forming method  
A beam detecting unit detects at least one of a position of an optical beam in a sub scanning direction and a position of the optical beam in a main scanning direction. A color-misalignment...
7586507 Printer for recording on a moving medium  
A method for forming a pixel ( 20 ) having a predetermined density onto a sensitized recording medium moving in a length direction energizes a pixel exposure source ( 14 ) to begin exposure at the...
7580051 Method and apparatus for imaging a printing form  
A method for imaging a printing form is particularly suited for a printing form exposer or a printing unit of a press. A plurality of light sources produce image points in a row on the printing...
7576764 Device and method for controlling timing for starting image formation, and an image forming apparatus using such device and method  
A device and method for controlling timing for starting image formation, and image forming apparatus using such device and method are described. A detector outputs a synchronization detection...
7570386 Systems and methods that compensate for scan path errors in a multi-beam electrophotographic imaging apparatus  
The positioning of image data written along a laser beam scan path in the scan direction, e.g., the margin and/or line length is adjusted in a manner that compensates for changes in the laser beam...
7567268 Image forming apparatus and abnormality detecting method  
A light-emission control unit controls an emission of a light beam from a light-beam generating unit based on an input image signal. A light-beam scanning unit deflects the light beam in a main...
7551192 Optical-beam scanning apparatus and image forming apparatus  
A scanning time is divided by the number of sides of a polygon mirror to obtain a value N. Then, it is determined whether an error has occurred. When no error has occurred, the value N is stored in...
7551195 Light scanning device  
A light scanning device capable of scanning a light beam on a photosensitive surface includes a light receiving system configured to receive the light beam and output a light receiving signal and a...
7538315 Image forming apparatus and control method therefor  
This invention makes it possible to prevent any uneven density and degradation in resolution in reciprocal laser scanning using a movable mirror. An image forming apparatus forms an image on a...
7528853 Color image forming apparatus and process cartridge  
A color image forming apparatus in which an engine controller outputs an operation start signal to write controllers at a timing at which a registration sensor detects a position of a sheet of...
7528995 Synchronization signal generator and image forming apparatus  
An image forming apparatus using a synchronization signal generator can easily generate a pixel clock that enables both a magnification correction in a main scanning direction and a correction of...
7508408 Image forming apparatus capable of effectively initializing a laser drive circuit  
An image forming apparatus capable of properly performing an initialization of a control circuit including a laser diode driver circuit, includes a light source, a photoreceptor, a deflector, and a...
7502041 Method and apparatus for image forming capable of synthesizing a full color image without causing deviations of color layers  
An image forming apparatus includes an intermediate transfer member, a sensor, and two image forming units. Each of the image forming units includes an image carrier, an image writer, two...
7499070 Method of diagnosing a state of a horizontal synchronizing signal for an optical scanner  
A method of diagnosing a state of a horizontal synchronizing signal is provided for an optical scanner, which includes a rotary polygon mirror having a rotation sensor, a control clock competing...
7489328 Image correction in an image forming apparatus and image forming method  
A magnification correction controller corrects magnification in a main scanning direction by changing a timing of an image signal based on a time difference between a first detection time in a...
7479626 Optical scanner device  
An optical scanner device, comprising a scanning unit, which casts irradiation light emitted from a light source in an arbitrary direction to scan an observation object, an objective lens system,...
7471308 Frequency modulation apparatus and frequency modulation method  
A frequency modulation apparatus capable of reducing a peak level of a radiation noise of a characteristic frequency band due to an image clock. This frequency modulation apparatus is used in an...
7460144 Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus  
An optical scanning device that includes: a light-emitting unit that emits laser light to a polygon mirror on the basis of a turning-on signal; a sensor unit that detects laser light reflected by...
7456856 Clock signal generation circuit, optical scanning apparatus, and image forming apparatus  
The present invention discloses a clock signal generation circuit for generating one or more clock signals for performing a scanning operation by scanning a light beam from a light source to a scan...
7450287 Optical scanning device and method for detecting synchronization signal  
Provided are an optical scanning device and a method for detecting a synchronization signal. In the optical scanning device, a beam incident on a scanning area of an object's surface to be scanned...
7432943 Image forming apparatus  
An image forming apparatus which has a plurality of image forming stations arranged in parallel, each of the image forming stations having a photosensitive drum, and which forms a desired image by...
7391431 Image forming apparatus for correcting magnification of image  
A measuring unit measures a time difference between detections of the optical beams by an optical beam detector arranged on either side of an image carrier with respect to a horizontal scanning...
7388597 Beam light scanning device and image forming apparatus using same  
A beam light scanning device includes an image data processing unit operable to output image-processed data of neighboring pixels in such a way that the data is divided for distribution into first...
7365764 Scanning optical apparatus and color image forming apparatus using the same  
A scanning optical apparatus includes a light source capable of being modulated, a deflecting element for deflecting and scanning a beam emitted from the light source, a scanning optical element...
7352480 Image processing apparatus and image processing method  
An image processing apparatus which comprises a RAM acting as a shared memory for storing image data, and an image processing board, connected to the RAM through a PCI bus acting as a...
7345695 Image-forming device  
A scanning unit of an image-forming device has a polygon mirror for deflecting a laser beam across the surface of a photosensitive member. A disc that rotates together with the polygon mirror is...
7342598 Apparatus and method for recording image on printing plate  
A printing apparatus with a plate-making mechanism with a data modification part for modifying width of an original image in a subscan direction by computation to obtain a modified image and a...
7330296 Synchronous detector, optical scanner, and image forming apparatus  
A synchronous detector detects timing of scanning by an optical scanner in an image forming apparatus. The optical scanner has a light source that emits a light beam, a deflecting unit that...
7280129 Pixel position specifying method, method of correcting image offset, and image forming device  
A pixel position specifying method in an image forming device, the method measuring positions of exposure beams of the respective exposure heads and specifying pixel positions of junctures of the...
7280128 Apparatus for and method of recording image  
An image recording apparatus includes a scanning part for recording a plurality of unit images individually on a plurality of recording media, the plurality of unit images being to be superimposed...
7277113 Method and apparatus for image forming  
An image forming apparatus in which the intensity of a light beam used to form a latent image is switched in response to a change in resolution. A laser emits a light beam for forming a latent...
7212224 Pixel clock creation method, pixel clock creation device, optical scanning device, and image forming apparatus  
In a pixel clock creation method and device, a high frequency clock is created. A scanning time needed to scan a predetermined scanning length is detected in accuracy of half a period of the high...
7209158 Scanning line alignment compensation apparatus and method for a laser printer  
A scanning line alignment compensation apparatus and method for a laser printer. The scanning line alignment compensation apparatus includes a laser scanning unit (LSU) having a first laser diode...
7187398 Characterization of a scan line produced from a facet of a scanning device  
A method for refining a length of a scan line, where the scan line is produced from a facet of a scanning device. The method includes the steps of: (a) acquiring a plurality of scan line lengths...
7187400 Method and apparatus for compensating for image misalignment due to variations in laser power in a bi-directional raster imaging system  
A bi-directional electrophotographic raster imaging system that sweeps a modulated light beam across an imaging region of a photosensitive surface to create both forward-going and reverse-going...
7170544 Frequency modulator for modulating image data based on frequency data of scan lines of an image carrier  
A frequency modulation device for use in an image forming apparatus. The image formation apparatus includes an image carrier and a laser device for scanning the image carrier along a plurality of...
7158163 Light beam scanning apparatus capable of shortening the standby time and image forming apparatus capable of shortening the standby time  
A light beam scanning apparatus according to an embodiment of this invention includes a reflection unit for reflecting a light beam, a rotation unit for rotating the reflection unit, a rotation...
7154640 Multi-beam scanning apparatus and image forming apparatus using the same  
This invention is to obtain a multi-beam scanning apparatus which always executes synchronization detection at the same timing to prevent any jitter, and an image forming apparatus using the...
7139013 Laser scanning control apparatus  
To provide a laser scanning control apparatus for driving a light source adapted to emit a laser beam in accordance with image data defined in pixels to scan an image bearing member in a main...
7136085 Image-forming apparatus and optical scanner  
An image-forming apparatus is disclosed that includes at least one imaging optical system forming an electrostatic latent image on the scanning surface of a medium moving in a sub scanning...
7119824 Multi-beam optical scanning apparatus, and image forming apparatus using the same  
An object is to obtain a multi-beam optical scanning apparatus in which a displacement of an image location of each of light beams emitted from a plurality of light emitting portions is reduced,...
7098937 Multi-beam scanning optical system, image forming apparatus, and color image forming apparatus  
In a multi-beam scanning optical system, when at least three light fluxes emitted from a light source having at least three light-emitting points are deflected and reflected on a deflection unit...
7092651 Image forming apparatus method and storage device storing a program for controlling image forming operation of primarily transferring an image onto an intermediate transfer member  
An image forming apparatus which is capable of reducing a color misalignment in a color overlapping process, and a color misalignment due to variation of the circumferential length of an...
7050080 Image forming apparatus for controlling image writing by adjusting image clock  
In an image forming apparatus which uses a semiconductor laser as a light source, a semiconductor laser is controlled by adjustment of an image write-in clock, and a highly accurate scanning...
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