US 12,462,133 B2
Image forming apparatus for forming stored image data on a print medium, image forming method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium
Shoei Moribe, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Oct. 5, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/481,929.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-162595 (JP), filed on Oct. 7, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0119244 A1, Apr. 11, 2024
Int. Cl. G06K 15/02 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01)
CPC G06K 15/1825 (2013.01) [G03G 15/5029 (2013.01); G06K 15/1852 (2013.01); G06K 2215/101 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
a storage unit storing image data of an image having a plurality of regions, the plurality of regions having stepwise different densities, including a first region, a second region, and a third region between the first region and the second region, and satisfying a relationship of a moisture amount in the first region<a moisture amount in the third region<a moisture amount in the second region; and
an image forming unit configured to form the stored image data on a print medium,
wherein a size of the third region is determined from a moisture amount difference between the first region and the second region.