Patent ID: 8953009
Filing Date: 2015-02-10
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus that forms an image by developing an electrostatic latent image formed by irradiating a charged photoconductor with light emitted from a light source with developer, comprising: a detecting unit configured to detect a distance between an attention pixel and an adjacent image that is adjacent to an image including the attention pixel across a white background; and an adjustment unit configured to adjust a density of the attention pixel based on the distance measured with said detecting unit and a spot diameter of the light on a surface of the photoconductor, wherein said detecting unit determines whether the attention pixel is an edge pixel of the image including the attention pixel, and wherein said detecting unit detects the number of pixels between the attention pixel and the adjacent image as the distance when the attention pixel is the edge pixel, and sets the distance to zero when the attention pixel is not an edge pixel.