Abstract:
A pixel clock generating device includes a time interval detection unit detecting a time interval between a first signal and a second signal in each of cyclically repeating N (≧2) time periods; a comparing unit cyclically selecting a target value from N target values corresponding to the N time periods and outputting an error indicating a difference between the detected time interval and the selected target value for each of the N time periods; a frequency calculation unit correcting a frequency of the pixel clock signal based on the error and cyclically generating a frequency specification signal indicating the corrected frequency for each of the N time periods; a high-frequency clock generating unit generating a high-frequency clock signal; and a pixel clock generating unit generating a pixel clock signal based on the frequency specification signal and the high-frequency clock signal.
Abstract:
A pixel clock generating device includes a time interval detection unit detecting a time interval between a first signal and a second signal in each of cyclically repeating N (≧2) time periods; a comparing unit cyclically selecting a target value from N target values corresponding to the N time periods and outputting an error indicating a difference between the detected time interval and the selected target value for each of the N time periods; a frequency calculation unit correcting a frequency of the pixel clock signal based on the error and cyclically generating a frequency specification signal indicating the corrected frequency for each of the N time periods; a high-frequency clock generating unit generating a high-frequency clock signal; and a pixel clock generating unit generating a pixel clock signal based on the frequency specification signal and the high-frequency clock signal.
Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a light source, a deflector, beam detectors, a clock generator, a measurement mechanism, a frequency corrector, and a phase corrector. The light source illuminates in response to image data. The deflector deflects an optical beam into a scanning beam. The beam detectors including first and second beam detectors detect the scanning beam. The clock generator generates writing clock signals. The measurement mechanism measures a count number of the writing clock signals generated during a period between the scanning beam is detected by the first and second beam detectors. The frequency corrector corrects a frequency of the writing clock signals such that the count number measured becomes substantially equivalent to a predetermined number. The phase corrector varies a phase of the writing clock signals such that the count number is substantially constant before and after the phase of the writing clock signals is varied.
Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a light source, a deflector, beam detectors, a clock generator, a measurement mechanism, a frequency corrector, and a phase corrector. The light source illuminates in response to image data. The deflector deflects an optical beam into a scanning beam. The beam detectors including first and second beam detectors detect the scanning beam. The clock generator generates writing clock signals. The measurement mechanism measures a count number of the writing clock signals generated during a period between the scanning beam is detected by the first and second beam detectors. The frequency corrector corrects a frequency of the writing clock signals such that the count number measured becomes substantially equivalent to a predetermined number. The phase corrector varies a phase of the writing clock signals such that the count number is substantially constant before and after the phase of the writing clock signals is varied.
Abstract:
An optical recording apparatus includes a light source, a scanner, and a phase shift controller. The light source emits a light beam controlled to be lit on and off in synchronism with a pixel clock signal according to input image data. The scanner reforms the light beam emitted by the light source into a cyclic scanning light beam scanning in a main scanning direction a photosensitive surface moving in a sub-scanning direction. The phase shift controller performs an image magnification correction by a phase change for changing a phase of the pixel clock signal in units of one nth of a cycle of the pixel clock signal at one or more positions on the photoconductive surface in the main scanning direction, in which n is an integer greater than one. A method and apparatus of optical image forming is also described.
Abstract:
A first main-scanning-position correction unit divides a surface to be scanned into first areas in a main scanning direction into areas, sets a separate clock-pulse timing for first area, and corrects a main-scanning position error. A second main-scanning-position correction unit divides the surface into second areas in the main scanning direction based on first-scanning-position correction data, sets a separate clock-pulse timing for each second area, and corrects the main-scanning position error.
Abstract:
An optical recording apparatus includes a light source, a scanner, and a phase shift controller. The light source emits a light beam controlled to be lit on and off in synchronism with a pixel clock signal according to input image data. The scanner reforms the light beam emitted by the light source into a cyclic scanning light beam scanning in a main scanning direction a photosensitive surface moving in a sub-scanning direction. The phase shift controller performs an image magnification correction by a phase change for changing a phase of the pixel clock signal in units of one nth of a cycle of the pixel clock signal at one or more positions on the photoconductive surface in the main scanning direction, in which n is an integer greater than one. A method and apparatus of optical image forming is also described.
Abstract:
A high-quality image forming apparatus that is capable of accurately adjusting the size and position of an image during image formation on a second surface of a transfer material, even when there has been expansion/contraction of the transfer material due to thermal fixing after image formation on a first surface thereof, to thereby avoid image displacement during two-sided image formation and multiple image formation. A pulse adjusting section sets a second number of pulses of the image clock corresponding to a distance from BD signal detector to the write start position of the latent image during image formation on the second surface, to a number of pulses different from a first number of pulses of the image clock corresponding to a distance from the horizontal synchronization signal detecting device to the write start position of the latent image during image formation on the first surface, based on the first number of pulses of the image clock during image formation on the first surface, in accordance with an expansion/contraction ratio of the transfer material after fixing of the image on the first surface.
Abstract:
A method and system for digital resolution translation. An input frequency is received, as is a desired output frequency. The desired output frequency is measured directly and compared with the input frequency. The specified output frequency is dynamically adjusted to compensate for variations in the input frequency, while a fixed relationship between the input and output is kept intact. The relationship between the input and output frequencies can be arbitrary, non-integer or integer. The system consists of an execution process (54) and the adjusted output frequency is sent to a system as a sampling signal. The system reset/restart capability allows for a repeatable phase relationship between the output and the input from any given reset point.
Abstract:
A central time-shared data processing system organized for character analysis and coupled to a number of remote document scanning stations each including a drum document feed, the drum being rotatable in small incremental steps, and means operable between steps for scanning the document along a path parallel to a line of characters on the document to produce data identifying graphic figures for analysis by the central processing system.