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US 4,582,417 AGranted
Apparatus for forming images
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsToshiaki Yagasaki, Shunichi Masuda, Yukio Sato
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Abstract
An image-forming apparatus is disclosed which is able to form an image while blanking any unnecessary image portion or extracting any desired image portion at one's will. To this end, the apparatus includes a plurality of light exposing means, an image area setting means and control means. Said control means selectively renders said individual light exposing means operative or inoperative according to the selected image area by said image area setting means.
Claims8
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a photosensitive medium;
- charging means for applying electric charge uniformly on said photosensitive medium;
- means for forming a latent image corresponding to an original image on the charged photosensitive medium;
- a plural number of light exposing members each for irradiating a respective determined section of said photosensitive medium;
- means for setting a desired image area of said original image, wherein said setting means includes key input means for entering area data related to the desired image area and means for storing said area data, and wherein said key input means is also adapted to set the number of times a said visible image is to be formed on recording sheets;
- control means for rendering said plural number of light exposing members operative or inoperative independently of each other in accordance with said area data stored in said storing means so as to blank out any unnecessary image portion or extract any desired image portion;
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- means for recording a visible image on a recording sheet based on the latent image formed on said photosensitive medium.
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