Abstract:
The light beam scanning apparatus of the present invention which is capable of recording or reading an image of high quality has a memory unit that stores datum representing the intensity of light in association with scanning density and a selector that selects said light intensity data from said memory unit according to a particular scanning density.Therefore, when the scanning density is changed by altering the transport speed in sub-scanning direction, the intensity of the light beam emitted from a light source such as a laser is adjusted by the data which is selected by the selector from the memory unit according to the scanning density.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to control of motor and strobe pulses in a printer which feeds a paper by a stepping motor and prints data by strobe pulses. A uniform record line density is attained by non-linearly changing currents and interval of phase excitation pulses for trigger of the motor and timing of the strobe pulses.
Abstract:
The recording apparatus includes a continuous rolled sheet supply and cutter and a stacked pre-cut sheet supply, both sheet supplies have a conveyor for feeding the respective sheet to a recording area. Recording is performed on the inside surface of the rolled sheet and on the lower surface of the cut sheet to avoid the problem of dust collecting on the opposing surfaces.
Abstract:
A medical image reproducing system comprises a plurality of medical image signal feeding apparatuses, which feed out image signals representing medical images, and a single image reproducing and recording apparatus, which is connected to the plurality of the medical image signal feeding apparatuses, and which reproduces an image from each of the image signals fed out from the medical image signal feeding apparatuses and records the image. Each medical image signal feeding apparatus is provided with a device for generating an identification signal representing the resolution, with which the picture elements in an image represented by an image signal fed out from each medical image signal feeding apparatus are arrayed. The identification signal is fed into the image reproducing and recording apparatus together with the corresponding image signal. The image reproducing and recording apparatus is provided with a device for reading an identification signal and setting the resolution, with which the picture elements in a reproduced and recorded image are arrayed, to be equal to the resolution represented by the identification signal, which has thus been read.
Abstract:
Image frame length control apparatus and methods are disclosed which have particular utility in a printing or reproduction apparatus that writes one or more images on a transported photosensitive media such as a photoconducting drum or continuous-loop web. When an electronic writing system or optical exposure system is used to expose a driven media on a line-by-line basis, a variation in media thickness causes the latent image frame to be written with an inaccurate frame length. Consequently, a degraded print is produced.The latent image frame length is corrected during exposure, by adding or omitting one or more lines in the image frame. Alternatively, the exposure of an image is offet by an interval corresponding to one-half of the total length discrepancy between the uncorrected image frame length and the image frame length that would be written if the media surface speed was at a median level. The overall image length error is thereby reduced by half and distributed to the upper and lower extremities of the image frame. In another embodiment, the rotation rate of the media is increased or decreased when a respectively thin or thick portion of the media passes over the driving apparatus.The corrected image fames are written with greater fidelity to the original and, after development and transfer to a receiver, are particularly well-suited for use in forming an accurate multicolor reproduction.
Abstract:
An image reading apparatus has a photo line sensor, a motor, buffers, a memory, a process unit, and a CPU. A facsimile system has such an apparatus, a transfer section and a modem. Image datas of an original is read out during displacement of the original to allow reliable, fast image processing.
Abstract:
A movable image bearing member is provided with marks for detecting a moving speed of the image bearing member. A sensor detects the speed of movement of the marks. The signal as a result of the detection is compared with a reference signal to determine a phase difference therebetween. A driving motor for driving the image bearing member is controlled to remove the phase difference. Thus, the actual speed of the image bearing member is directly detected, and the speed is controlled so that the moving speed of the periphery of the image bearing member concerned with the image formation is accurately controlled.
Abstract:
A facsimile-printer combination of a dot-matrix type, including: a first and a second printing device operable in a fascimile mode and a printer mode according to first and second printing information, respectively, for selectively producing dots on a recording medium, at a first printing pitch in metric and a second printing pitch in inch unit, respectively, in a direction of width of the recording medium; a first and a second feeding device in association with the first and second printing devices, for feeding the recording medium at a first feeding pitch the metric unit and a second feeding pitch in the inch unit, respectively, in a direction of length of the recording medium; an input device for receiving the first and second printing information output devices; and a selector device for rendering the first printing and feeding devices operative when the first printing information is received by the input device, and rendering the second printing and feeding devices operative when the second printing information is received by the input device.
Abstract:
An improvement to a facsimile system which enables the simulation of 240 and 300 DPI feedwise scan resolutions in a system designed to operate at 200 and 400 DPI feedwise scan resolutions. The simulation is accomplished by feedwise advancing a document past a horizontal image scanner in defined sequences of half and full steps, half steps causing the document to be feedwise advanced by one four-hundredth of an inch (as in 400 DPI mode), full steps causing the document to be feedwise advanced by one two-hundredth of an inch (as in 200 DPI mode). The scan resolution errors introduced by the simulation are non-cumulative since the system comes back into feedwise synchronization with true 240 and 300 DPI scan resolutions each time one of the defined three operation sequences is completed. Also, a method of operating a document feeding system to approximate 240 and 300 DPI feedwise scan resolutions.
Abstract:
A pair of cylinders is rotated in synchronism; each cylinder has a mark on its periphery and the marks are to be moved to angular coincidence. A train of counting pulses is derived from a train of timing pulses which controls the drive of one of the cylinders; when a signal is generated as the mark of this cylinder passes a fixed point, this counting pulse train is applied to a forward-reverse counter to make it count backwards from a reference value. As soon as the signal indicative of the passage of the mark on the other cylinder is generated, the counting pulse train is cut off and a pulse train derived from it but of stepped-down pulse frequency, is applied to the counter to make the same count forward to the reference value. During the forward counting, and until the reference value is reached again, the train of counting pulses is modified by adding or suppressing timing pulses, until the next signals from the one and the other cylinder indicate angular coincidence of the marks.