Patent ID: 7978358
Filing Date: 2011-07-12
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image forming device, comprising: a reading unit being configured to read documents to obtain image data; a data storage unit being configured to store the image data, the total number of scan lines in the image data from one end to the other end in the slow scan direction being an odd number, the data storage unit correcting the image data so that the total number of scan lines becomes an odd number if the total number of scan lines is an even number before correction thereof; and a printing unit being configured to scan image data in a first scan direction and a slow scan direction being perpendicular to the first scan direction, the printing unit being configured to scan image data arranged in the first scan direction and the slow scan direction, the image data including actual latent image lines formed from actual data and artificial latent image lines formed using the actual data.