US Patent Issued to Canon on July 21 for "Image forming apparatus performing halftone processing shifting scan line start position in main-scan direction when scan lines are shifted in sub-scan direction relative to target" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,697, issued on July 21, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus performing halftone processing shifting scan line start position in main-scan direction when scan lines are shifted in sub-scan direction relative to target" was invented by Go Araki (Shizuoka, Japan) and Mitsuhiro Obara (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes: a unit configured to form an electrostatic latent image using a plurality of scan lines on a photosensitive body by, on a basis of an image signal, performing scanning of the photosensitive body in a main scan direction using one or more scanning bea...