US Patent Issued to Canon on Dec. 16 for "Exposure-controlling apparatus and image-forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,836, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Exposure-controlling apparatus and image-forming apparatus" was invented by Yasutomo Tanaka (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an apparatus having an exposure head including K light-emitting chips arranged along a rotation axis of a photosensitive body. Light-emitting elements to form a latent image are arranged in each light-emitting chip. The apparatus includes: a dividing unit that divides image data into K pieces of partial image data for the K light-emitting chips that are temporarily stored in memory resources; and a control unit that contr...