Patent ID: 9373067
Filing Date: 2016-06-21
CPC Classification: G03G,G06K

Claim Text:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising: an obtaining unit configured to obtain a number of pixels in a sub-scanning direction of a white region in image data, the white region being adjacent to a region at a downstream side in the sub-scanning direction of the region and the region being in the image data and including, continuously in the sub-scanning direction, pixels with a density not smaller than a predetermined density; and a correcting unit configured to correct a pixel value for a unit region based on the number of pixels of the white region obtained by the obtaining unit so that a density of the unit region becomes low, the unit region being included in the region at the downstream side thereof in the sub-scanning direction, wherein the correction unit corrects the density of the unit region with a first correction amount in a case where the number of pixels of the white region obtained by the obtaining unit is a first number of pixels, and corrects the density of the unit region with a second correction amount larger than the first correction amount in a case where the number of pixels of the white region obtained by the obtaining unit is a second number of pixels which is larger than the first number of pixels.