US Patent Issued to Sharp on July 15 for "Image-forming apparatus and method for suppressing generation of a density level difference caused by reciprocity failure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,474, issued on July 15, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Image-forming apparatus and method for suppressing generation of a density level difference caused by reciprocity failure" was invented by Kazutaka Matsumoto (Sakai, Japan) and Shota Kaneko (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image-forming apparatus employing an electrophotographic method that scans a surface of an image carrier with multi-beams emitted from a plurality of light emitting elements based on image data includes a density smoothing processor that performs a density smoothing process to smooth a density level difference of an image subjected t...