Patent ID: 7212327
Filing Date: 2007-05-01
Classification: B41J,G06K

Abstract:
1. An imaging method which employs an imaging head which faces an imaging surface and is relatively moved along the imaging surface in a predetermined scanning direction for imaging, the imaging head comprising: an imaging element group including a plurality of imaging elements in a plane substantially parallel to the imaging surface, the imaging elements being two-dimensionally arranged, and the imaging element group generating a group of image pixels at the imaging surface in a two-dimensional arrangement which is inclined, as a whole, at a predetermined inclination angle with respect to the scanning direction; and an alteration section which, on the basis of a difference between the predetermined inclination angle of the imaging element group and an actual inclination angle of the image pixel group, alters a number of image pixels that are employed in a direction which is inclined from the scanning direction by the actual inclination angle, the method comprising the steps of: (a) altering the number of image pixels that are employed in the direction which is inclined from the scanning direction by the actual inclination angle, so as to suppress variation of an image pitch in a direction perpendicular to the scanning direction, on the basis of the difference between the predetermined inclination angle of the imaging element group and the actual inclination angle of the image pixel group; and (b) employing the altered number of image pixels for imaging at the imaging surface.