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US 2001/0019668 A1Published application
Image forming apparatus capable of detecting both of regularly reflected light and irregularly reflected light
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKazuo Suzuki, T akao Ogata, Nobuhiko Zaima
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Abstract
The present invention provides an image forming apparatus that has image forming device for forming a toner image, first detecting device for detecting the quantity of regularly reflected light from the toner image, and second detecting device for detecting the quantity of irregularly reflected light from the toner image.
Claims7
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- image forming means for forming a toner image;
- first detecting means for detecting a quantity of regularly reflected light from the toner image;
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- second detecting means for detecting a quantity of irregularly reflected light from the toner image.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.