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US 9,519,256 B2Granted
Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and storage medium
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYuichiro Shibuya
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AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYuichiro Shibuya
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An image forming apparatus includes a measurement unit configured to measure a density of an image that an image forming unit forms, an acquisition unit configured to acquire an image processing parameter serving as a correction value used to correct the measured density of the image, a generation unit configured to generate a cleaning patch image using the acquired image processing parameter, and a cleaning patch image forming unit configured to form the cleaning patch image generated by the generation unit on an image bearing member, wherein the cleaning patch image is formed during an interval after a first image is formed by the image forming unit on the image bearing member but before a second image having a printing instruction issued subsequent to a printing instruction issued for the first image is formed by the image forming unit on the image bearing member.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
An image forming method comprising:
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer executable instructions that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to execute a method comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.