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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8149259 | Drive device, LED array, LED head, and image forming apparatus provided therewith A drive device for outputting a drive signal for driving a plurality of light emitting elements time-divisionally, the drive device includes a plurality of input terminals receiving input of a drive control signal for the light emitting elements, and a plurality of ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8134586 | Beam light scanning apparatus, image forming apparatus, and method for controlling generation of beam light A beam light scanning apparatus capable of reducing influences of variations in characteristics of circuits disposed in a signal path extending until a laser driver and speeding up image data transfer for scan and exposure. Data of each line is distributed by an ima... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8125506 | Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus An electro-optical device includes a potential generating circuit that generates a first power supply potential and a second power supply potential that is different from the first power supply potential; a first signal processing circuit that selectively outputs on... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8089501 | Light emitting apparatus, optical printhead, and image forming apparatus A light emitting apparatus includes optical thyristors, a driver circuit that supplies a drive current to the thyristors so that the thyristors emit light, and a control circuit that controls the thyristors. Each thyristor includes an anode, a cathode connected to t... | 01/03/2012 |
| 7859559 | Optical scanning apparatus and optical scanning method A memory read control unit (606) reads out image data of one pixel from a memory (603) in synchronism with a clock signal. On the basis of the image data of one pixel, a converting unit (604) converts the density of a corresponding pixel into di... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7777776 | Frequency modulator that generates frequency data for use in modulating input image data A frequency modulation device for use in an image forming apparatus. The image formation apparatus includes an image carrier and a laser device for scanning the image carrier along a plurality of scan lines. Each scan line is divided into segments having segment bou... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7649544 | Method and system for improved raster output scan control in an electrophotographic system An improved ROS driver circuit for an electrophotographic printing system includes a sub-pixel clock generator, a parallel to serial converter, and a raster output scanner (ROS) light source. The sub-pixel clock generator generates a sub-pixel clock signal that has ... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7633515 | Exposure apparatus In an exposure apparatus employing an over filled optical system, the light quantity distribution on a scanning plane is kept nearly constant for a plurality of scanning light quantities. It selects the light quantity of the light beam irradiated onto the photosensi... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7542064 | Image forming apparatus and method of controlling same Whether an image to be formed has a prescribed M×N pixel pattern is determined by a comparator. If it is determined that the image has the prescribed M×N pixel pattern, then a light-quantity correction signal that is for reducing the current that flows through a s... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7515169 | Beam light scanning apparatus, image forming apparatus, and beam light scanning method A beam light scanning apparatus capable of speeding up transfer of image data used for scan with a beam light while suppressing an increase of the parts cost. The beam light scanning apparatus includes a laser oscillator for emitting a beam light for scan, and a uni... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7508409 | Drive control device for use in an image forming apparatus A drive control device for use in an image forming apparatus comprises: a cover sensing unit which detects the opening of a cover of the image forming apparatus; a relay unit which controls supplement of a voltage for driving a laser scanning unit; and a relay opera... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7468737 | Method and apparatus for determining the mechanical sinusoidal deflection angle of an oscillating mirror in a laser printer A laser printer includes a light source, a photosensitive drum, an oscillating mirror, a beam detector, and a control circuit. The light source shines a light beam towards the oscillating mirror, which reflects the light beam towards the photosensitive drum. The bea... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7450143 | Electro-photographic image forming device capable of controlling print speed and control method thereof An electro-photographic image forming device that is capable of controlling a print speed and a method for controlling the same, wherein the electro-photographic image forming device has an engine mechanism including a laser scanning unit, a developing unit, a trans... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7443413 | Laser diode modulator and method of controlling laser diode modulator A method for adjusting a laser diode drive current pulse, comprises providing a power correction table comprising drive current pulse correction factors corresponding to counter positions. The method also comprises providing a jump table comprising counter position ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7425972 | Method and system for improved control of xerographic parameters in a high quality document system A system changes the setpoint of a digital reprographic system in response to the local image content by utilizing tag data that contains information identifying the image content type of a corresponding image data pixel. The system modifies the reproduction charact... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7425976 | Variable frequency generator A digital circuit generates very precise varying clock frequencies for applications that can tolerate a small degree of jitter but require exact longer term frequencies, e.g. a video clock for a laser printer. Some subpixel jitter is acceptable, but the overall pixe... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7403215 | Current driver and power control for electrophotographic devices Laser driver systems and methods are provided for controlling a laser driver coupled to a suitable laser source. The laser driver comprises a plurality of current sources, including at least one bias current source and at least two switched current sources. To contr... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7397486 | Exposure head controller, exposure head and image formation device Provided is an exposure head controller that controls, via pulse width modulation control, the emission quantity of each light emitting element in an exposure head having a light emitting element array formed by arranging a plurality of light emitting elements in a ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7394477 | Image formation apparatus An image formation apparatus comprises an optical flat including: a cabinet; and a scanning optical system containing a light deflection section, the scanning optical system being housed inside the cabinet, so as to emit light scanned by the light deflection section... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7394479 | Pulsed laser printing The present disclosure includes systems and techniques relating to pulse laser printing. In general, in one implementation, an apparatus includes: a laser operable to produce a pulsed printing beam; an optics assembly operable to focus and direct the pulsed printing... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7372594 | Image processing apparatus and method, and storage medium A pattern which does not appear at a flat portion in normal binarization processing is set as a code pattern, and a code formed from this pattern is attached. At this time, code attachment with little degradation in image quality is implemented by selecting an unnot... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369268 | Light source using large area LEDs A printing apparatus (100) for printing digital images onto a photosensitive medium (140) employing, for exposure energy, a light source (20) that uses various arrays of LEDs (32). The printing apparatus (100) may form the print im... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369152 | Laser marking method In a marking device, by illuminating a laser beam onto an X-ray film which is a light-photosensitive heat-developing photosensitive material, an inner portion of a surface layer is melted, a cavity is formed, and a dot, which projects a surface out in a convex shape... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365765 | Apparatus for forming image and method of controlling same apparatus in self-diagnostic manner An apparatus for forming an image is disclosed which includes a scanner motor rotatably driving a polygon mirror; a laser light emitter emitting laser light; a generator detecting the laser light reflected off from the polygon mirror, thereby generating a first peri... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362500 | Double-clad fiber scanning microscope A scanning microscope having a laser outputting an excitation laser beam and a fiber member having a first core and a second core. The second core is generally disposed within the first core and is operable to receive the excitation laser beam from the laser and tra... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7355614 | Filling an area of an image marked on a material with a laser A system converts graphic images, such as those created by graphics applications, to a format that can be efficiently printed on a material by a laser printing system. An image can be converted to a set of locations by defining progressively smaller contours of the ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352786 | Apparatus for driving light emitting element and system for driving light emitting element In case of driving each of light emitting parts of a surface emitting laser, each of light emitting parts is made to be in forward-bias state and switches appropriately change bias voltage, which is lower than laser oscillation threshold voltage, and drive voltages,... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349166 | Optical member holding device, and optical scanning device provided with the same A device for holding a laser diode (LD) and a collimate lens. A laser unit includes an LD supporting section supporting the LD, and a lens supporting section supporting the lens positioned opposite to the LD, A connecting portion connects the lens supporting section... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349131 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus receives image data from a plurality of external input means and forms an image on a sheet of paper based on the image data. In the image forming apparatus, an operation part for a user to perform an input/output operation is provided in t... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7342949 | Laser scanning device A laser scanning device includes a semiconductor laser that emits a laser beam, a laser power detector that detects laser beam power of the semiconductor laser, a reference voltage generator that generates reference voltage for controlling the laser beam power of th... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339603 | Exposure device for an electrophotographic apparatus An exposure device for an electrophotographic apparatus including one or more laser light sources which expose an image carrier in accordance with a print information signal supplied from an external information processing apparatus, a resolution switching lens, and... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336691 | Apparatus for combining beams from repetitively pulsed lasers along a common path Two pulse sequences are delivered by two lasers. A rotating segmented mirror having one or more reflective areas and one or more transmissive areas is rotated synchronously with the delivery of the pulse sequences to transmit pulses from one sequence, and to reflect... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336391 | Multi-exposure drawing method and apparatus therefor In a multi-exposure drawing method for drawing a pattern on a drawing surface, using an exposure unit including a plurality of optical modulation elements arranged in a matrix manner, the unit is continuously and relatively moved at a constant velocity with respect ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333121 | System and method for scaling data to compensate for slanted scanning in a bidirectional scanning laser printer A scanning system is adapted to scan an image beam across a photoconductive surface. The scanning system includes an oscillating mirror and is operable to generate an image beam and to reflect the image beam off the oscillating mirror to bidirectionally scan the ima... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7327378 | Laser scanning unit A laser scanning unit includes a housing; an optical system disposed in the housing and including an optical source which emits a laser beam, a polygonal mirror which scans the laser beam, and a plurality of optical elements which image the laser beam on an image su... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327379 | Pixel clock and pulse-modulation-signal generating device, optical scanner, and image forming apparatus A pixel clock and pulse-modulation-signal generating device includes a high-frequency-clock generating unit that generates a high-frequency clock; a modulation-data generating unit that generates, based on pixel control data that specifies a pixel length and image d... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324130 | LED driver with integrated bias and dimming control storage A LED driver IC includes a control module(s) for controlling one or more LED drive parameters and non-volatile memory for storing settings data for that control module(s). The control module(s) is fully integrated into the LED driver IC and does not require any cont... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7313080 | Information recording medium and its production method, and optical information recording reproducing apparatus An information recording medium has a recording portion where three-dimensional information can be recorded. The recording portion includes at least one particle-containing layer (recording layer or a recording auxiliary layer) containing particles absorbing at leas... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7306216 | Power transmitting apparatus, power switching apparatus, and driving apparatus of multi-function machine using the same A driving apparatus of a multi-function machine includes a scanner unit scanning data recorded on a sheet of document and a document transport part to transport the sheet of document. A printer unit prints data on a sheet of paper for an output and includes a carrie... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7301976 | Method and apparatus for semiconductor laser driving capable of stably generating consistent optical pulse widths of laser diodes A semiconductor laser driving circuit includes a light amount detector, a frequency determiner, and an initialization circuit. The light amount detector detects an amount of light emitted by a laser diode, and outputs a first voltage corresponding to the amount of l... | 11/27/2007 |
