发明名称 Image processing device and method of acquiring amount of positional deviation of light-emitting-element array
摘要 An image forming section includes a bearing member configured to bear an image, and a light-emitting-element array having a plurality of light emitting elements arranged linearly in an arrangement direction. The image forming section is configured to form an image on the bearing member by using the plurality of light emitting elements to form the image on a sheet. A reader is configured to read an image formed on a sheet. A memory stores instructions, the instructions, when executed by a processor, causing the processor to perform: a pattern reading process of controlling the reader to read a sheet on which a pattern image is formed, the pattern image being an image for detecting positional deviation of the light-emitting-element array; and a deviation calculating process of calculating an amount of positional deviation of the light-emitting-element array based on a reading result by the pattern reading process.
申请公布号 US9383675(B2) 申请公布日期 2016.07.05
申请号 US201414191635 申请日期 2014.02.27
申请人 Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha 发明人 Murayama Kentaro
分类号 G03G15/04 主分类号 G03G15/04
代理机构 Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. 代理人 Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
主权项 1. An image processing device comprising: an image forming section comprising: a conveyer configured to convey a sheet in a sheet conveying direction; a bearing member configured to bear an image; and a light-emitting-element array having a plurality of light emitting elements arranged linearly in an arrangement direction that is perpendicular to the sheet conveying direction, the image forming section being configured to form an image on the bearing member by using the plurality of light emitting elements to form the image on a sheet; a reader configured to read an image formed on the sheet; a processor; and a memory storing instructions, the instructions, when executed by the processor, causing the processor to perform: a pattern writing process of controlling the image forming section to form a pattern image on the sheet, the pattern image being an image for detecting positional deviation of the light-emitting-element array; a pattern reading process of controlling the reader to read as image data the pattern image formed on the sheet by the pattern writing process; a dividing process of dividing the pattern image read in the pattern reading process into a plurality of blocks in the arrangement direction of the plurality of light emitting elements; and a deviation calculating process of calculating an amount of positional deviation of the light-emitting-element array in the sheet conveying direction, for each of the plurality of blocks, wherein the light-emitting-element array comprises a plurality of light-emitting-element arrays, wherein the processor is configured to, in the deviation calculating process, calculate the amount of positional deviation of each of the plurality of light-emitting-element arrays in the sheet conveying direction, wherein the processor is configured to, in the pattern writing process, control the image forming section to form, on a sheet, the pattern image formed by neighboring ones of the plurality of light-emitting-element arrays, at positions different from each other with respect to the sheet conveying direction, and wherein the processor is configured to, in the pattern writing process, control the image forming section to form mark images for position recognition on the sheet, the mark images being formed by using a same light emitting element as the pattern image and located at an upstream side and a downstream side of the pattern image in the sheet conveying direction so that the pattern image is interposed between the mark images.
地址 Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken JP