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Image reading apparatus

US5978102A · kind A · utility

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7Claims
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Filing dateNov 22, 1996
Grant dateNov 2, 1999
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Expiry dateNov 22, 2016

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N2201/0434
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An image reading apparatus for reading open-faced documents comprises a document table for placing documents, an image sensing device for reading a document placed on said document table, a height detector for detecting height of said document at different positions in the main scan direction, and a displacement mechanism for displacing said image sensing device to accomplish focusing within a plane perpendicular to the subscan direction.

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