Patent Document ID: 8908193
Application ID: 14046793
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising: an image forming unit for forming an image on a recording sheet; a light source configured to emit a first light beam and a second light beam; an image capture device, including a plurality of pixels, configured to capture an area to be illuminated by the first light beam on a surface of the recording sheet as a first image, and an area to be illuminated by the second light beam on a surface of the recording sheet as a second image; and a control unit for controlling an image forming condition for the image forming unit based on information obtained from the first image and the second image, wherein a first straight line including a ray in a center of the first light beam and a second straight line including a ray in a center of the second light beam intersect with each other when each straight line is projected onto the surface of the recording sheet, and wherein a first area captured as the first image and the area illuminated by the second light beam do not overlap each other on the surface of the recording sheet and a second area captured as the second image and the area illuminated by the first light beam do not overlap each other on the surface of the recording sheet.