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US 7,486,414 B2Granted
Image forming device, pattern formation method and storage medium storing its program
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorYasuhiro Arai
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Abstract
An image forming device for implementing satisfactory color calibration includes a color calibration pattern generating unit that generates a color calibration pattern in a form according to an area where it is to be formed, and a visualizing unit that visualizes the color calibration pattern generated by the color calibration pattern generating unit.
Claims8
An image forming device comprising:
- a color calibration pattern generating unit that generates a color calibration pattern;
- an altering unit that alters a form of the color calibration pattern, generated by the color calibration pattern generating unit, according to the area where it is to be formed;
- and
- a visualizing unit that visualizes the color calibration pattern altered by the altering unit,
- wherein the visualizing unit comprises an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording medium,
- the altering unit splits the color calibration pattern according to an area in the recording medium where formation of the color calibration pattern is permitted, and
- the image forming unit forms the color calibration pattern split by the altering unit on a plurality of recording media.
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An image forming device comprising:
- an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording medium;
- a carrying unit that carries the recording medium on which the image is formed by the image forming unit;
- a controller that slows down carriage of a recording medium by the carrying unit where the image forming unit forms a color calibration pattern on a recording medium shorter in length in a carrying direction than a predetermined size compared with a case where the image is formed on a recording medium of the predetermined size;
- and
- a detector that reads the color calibration pattern from the recording medium being carried by the carrying unit.
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An image forming device comprising:
- a medium supplying unit that supplies one recording medium out of a plurality of types of recording media;
- an image forming unit that forms an image on the recording medium supplied by the medium supplying unit;
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- a controller that causes, when a color calibration pattern is formed by the image forming unit, the medium supplying unit to supply the largest recording medium out of the plurality of types of recording media.
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An image forming device comprising:
- an image forming unit that forms at least a color calibration pattern on a recording medium at a preset processing speed;
- a controller that varies, according to the processing speed, the color calibration pattern formed by the image forming unit;
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- a detector that reads the color calibration pattern formed by the image forming unit,
- wherein the image forming unit forms at least an image at a first processing speed or a second processing speed faster than the first processing speed, and
- the controller, when the color calibration pattern is formed at the second processing speed, causes a color calibration pattern to be formed, which is larger than the color calibration pattern formed at the first processing speed.
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An image forming device comprising:
- an image forming unit that forms at least a color calibration pattern on a recording medium at a preset processing speed;
- a controller that varies, according to the processing speed, the color calibration pattern formed by the image forming unit;
- a detector that reads the color calibration pattern formed by the image forming unit;
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- a carrying unit that carries, at a carrying speed according to the processing speed, a recording medium on which the image has been formed by the image forming unit,
- wherein the detector reads a color calibration pattern from the recording medium carried by the carrying unit.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.