US 2007/0236555 A1Published application

Image Copying Apparatus and Image Copying Method

AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorNorio Kurosawa

Life of this patent

Estimating the term…

Loading patent…

Abstract

An image copying apparatus comprises: a control panel is a user interface; a scanner; a memory that stores the image; an image rotation processing unit that rotates the image depending on the direction in which the image is to be printed; a printer; a printer controller; and a system controller that controls the entire apparatus, wherein the printer includes a light-emitting element, an image printing start position adjusting element that adjusts a start position of a printing position of the image to be printed, an image printing area adjusting element that sets a printing area of the image to be printed, a polygon mirror, and a polygon motor. According to the image copying apparatus, even when the size of a read image has been adjusted at the time of printing, the printing results of the same manuscript can be made the same regardless of differences in the printing direction.

Claims13

Dependent claims

An image copying apparatus comprising:

a control panel that includes an input unit which receives input operations from a user and a display unit which displays information to the user;
a scanner that reads an image;
a memory that stores the image read by the scanner;
an image rotation processing unit that rotates the image in accordance with the direction in which the image is to be printed;
a printer that forms an image, transfers the image to and fixes the image on paper, and discharges the paper;
a printer controller that controls the printer;
and
a system controller that controls the entire apparatus,
wherein the printer is disposed with a laser unit that forms a latent image on a drum, and
the laser unit includes
a light-emitting element that emits laser light such as a semiconductor laser,
an image printing start position adjusting element that adjusts a start position of a printing position of the image to be printed,
an image printing area adjusting element that sets a printing area of the image to be printed,
a polygon mirror that causes the laser light emitted from the light-emitting element to be reflected toward the drum, and
a polygon motor that drives the polygon mirror.

12 more elements

An image copying method comprising:

a printing direction determining step that determines the printing direction of an image;
a printing parameter setting step that conducts setting of printing parameters when conducting printing in a direction different from a printing direction serving as a reference;
and
a printing step that conducts printing on the basis of the printing parameters set in the printing parameter setting step.

1 more element

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 11/278,219Filed 31 Mar 2006
Published: 11 Oct 2007
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

H04N 1/3877
Composing, repositioning or otherwise geometrically modifying originals: image rotation
G03G 15/5095
Machine control of apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern, e.g. regulating differents parts of the machine, multimode…:…
H04N 1/393
Composing, repositioning or otherwise geometrically modifying originals: enlarging or reducing
G03G 15/0435
With means for controlling illumination or exposure: by introducing an optical element in the optical path, e.g. a filter

Family

US 7,440,716 B2Related patent
US 2007/0236555 A1This patent

From the US filing history. Foreign family members aren’t listed.

Timeline

Citations

Open elsewhere

Building an agent or pulling many patents? Use the API or MCP server instead of scraping pages. Get an API key