Color electrophotographic method
CA 2003424 C · Owner: Kumashiro, Yoshimasa · Inventors: Kumashiro, Yoshimasa; Murakami, Hajime
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Disclosed is a color electrophotographic method according to which color images of high quality can be stably obtained by digital signal processing of image information. This method comprises converting a read image signal to a digital signal, subjecting the digital signal to signal processing which includes tone correction of photoreceptor and tone correction of toner color density, exposing charged photoreceptor with a light having intensity modulated according to the signal to form a electrostatic latent image and then developing the latent image.
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- Filed November 21, 1989 and granted August 13, 1996. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 21, 2009.
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