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US07675649B2 Image forming electrophotography apparatus setting conditions for process control based on a total toner quantity equivalent value
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基于总调色剂量当量值的图像形成电子照相设备用于过程控制的设置条件
- Patent Title: Image forming electrophotography apparatus setting conditions for process control based on a total toner quantity equivalent value
- Patent Title (中): 基于总调色剂量当量值的图像形成电子照相设备用于过程控制的设置条件
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Application No.: US11497674Application Date: 2006-08-01
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Publication No.: US07675649B2Publication Date: 2010-03-09
- Inventor: Hiroshi Kawano , Masatsugu Nakamura , Shinji Imagawa , Takashi Kitagawa , Masaaki Ohtsuki
- Applicant: Hiroshi Kawano , Masatsugu Nakamura , Shinji Imagawa , Takashi Kitagawa , Masaaki Ohtsuki
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP
- Agent David G. Conlin; Steven M. Jensen
- Priority: JP2005-264476 20050912
- Main IPC: H04N1/407
- IPC: H04N1/407 ; H04N1/29 ; G03G15/06

Abstract:
A small domain generation section generates a plurality of small domains in a multi-valued image transmitted from an intermediate tone correction section. Each domain is constituted of a plurality of pixels. Counting means counts a signal input value of each pixel. Weighting calculation means corrects each signal input value of the “pixels subjection to toner quantity equivalent value calculation” with reference to the signal input value of the small domain, and reads out a weighting coefficient from the weighting coefficient table based on the modified signal input value. The weighting calculation means multiplies the signal input value by the coefficient so as to convert the signal input value into a toner quantity equivalent value. Accumulating means calculates toner quantity equivalent values for all of the pixels of the multi-valued image. A total toner quantity equivalent value calculation section determines a total toner quantity equivalent value by accumulating all of the toner quantity equivalent values which are individually calculated each time an image is processed. When the total toner quantity equivalent value reaches a predetermined value, conditions for process control is set. On this account, the present invention achieves an image forming apparatus capable of accurate estimation of toner consumption quantity.
Public/Granted literature
- US20070058199A1 Image forming apparatus Public/Granted day:2007-03-15
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