Image forming apparatus providing landscape or portrait image format based on detected size of original
US5625466A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 19, 1994 |
| Grant date | Apr 29, 1997 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 19, 2014 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04N1/3873
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
In a digital copying machine, a document image is read and the document image is reproduced on a paper. If a document has a size which does not limit a direction of document on a platen For reading the document image, the document type of portrait or landscape is decided according to the direction of document on the platen. If a user sets a document type, the setting by the user may have priority than the decision according to the document direction. If a document has a size which can be set only along a specified direction for reading the document image, it is requested for a user to set the document direction (portrait document or a landscape document). Then, for example, a margin can be set suitably according to the document type.
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