US 11,943,395 B2
Image forming device, image reading device, non-transitory recording medium storing computer-readable program, image forming method, and image processing device
Tomohiro Iwase, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to KONICA MINOLTA, INC., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by KONICA MINOLTA, INC., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Dec. 20, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/068,628.
Application 18/068,628 is a division of application No. 17/332,573, filed on May 27, 2021, granted, now 11,563,862.
Application 17/332,573 is a division of application No. 15/914,263, filed on Mar. 7, 2018, granted, now 11,128,760.
Claims priority of application No. 2017-047731 (JP), filed on Mar. 13, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2023/0121982 A1, Apr. 20, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01); G06K 15/02 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 1/00013 (2013.01) [G06F 3/1218 (2013.01); H04N 1/00084 (2013.01); H04N 1/00814 (2013.01); H04N 1/00822 (2013.01); H04N 1/00909 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
an image forming unit for forming one or more images on a surface of a sheet;
a transportation path on which the sheet is transported;
a first image reader for reading the surface of the sheet on the transportation path;
a second image reader disposed downstream of the first image reader in a transporting direction of the sheet for reading the surface of the sheet;
wherein the image forming apparatus has at least three reading modes including a first reading mode, a second reading mode and a third reading mode,
wherein the first reading mode is the mode using data obtained by reading a same surface of a same single sheet by both the first image reader and the second image reader, the second reading mode is the mode using data obtained by reading a surface of a single sheet by the first image reader, and the third reading mode is the mode using data obtained by reading a surface of a single sheet by the second image reader, and
wherein the image forming unit is controlled in accordance with a result of a reading operation of each of the first reading mode, the second reading mode and the third reading mode.