Patent ID: 6034710
Filing Date: 2000-03-07
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
An apparatus for forming on silver halide photographic material an image having a plurality of pixels, the apparatus comprising:a recording head including recording elements aligned in at least a single row;driving means for receiving an image signal representing a density level for each pixel of the image and for driving each of the recording elements independently so as to emit intermittently plural light emissions for each pixel of the image depending on the image signal;means for obtaining light amount data corresponding to a total light amount of plural light emissions emitted intermittently so as to form a single pixel for each of the recording elements driven by the driving means, the light amount data of each of the recording elements being obtained according to a condition when plural recording elements of the recording elements are simultaneously driven by the driving means;means for obtaining a correction value for each of the recording elements according to the light amount data;correcting means for correcting a light amount of each of the recording elements with the correction value; andconveying means for relatively conveying the silver halide photographic material to the recording elements so that the silver halide photographic material is exposed by the plural light emissions emitted intermittently from each of the recording elements for each pixel of the image in accordance with density level of the image signal.