228970 ⎘
Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission; Details thereof; Scanning arrangements, i.e. arrangements for the displacement of active reading or reproducing elements relative to the original or reproducing medium, or using multi-element arrays the array comprising a one-dimensional array, or a combination of one-dimensional arrays, or a substantially one-dimensional array, e.g. an array of staggered elements; Simultaneously or substantially simultaneously scanning picture elements on more than one main scanning line, e.g. scanning in swaths Scanning adjacent picture elements in different scans of the array, e.g. in complementary checkerboard patterns
Sub-classes:OPTICAL SCANNING METHOD AND OPTICAL SCANNING APPARATUS
#2Image forming apparatus having an assignment unit that assigns pulse modulation signals in accordance with a predetermined rule and a specific pixel position information
#3Image processor and image processing method generating first and second multi-value density data or performing quantization based on an image characteristic
#4Image processing apparatus and image processing method
#5Image processing device, printing apparatus, and image processing method