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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120008180 | ORIGINAL READING APPARATUS READING IMAGE FROM ORIGINAL A plurality of line sensors corresponding to a plualrity of color components receive reflected light passed through an imaging unit and convert the light into a plurality of color component data. A correcting unit performs color misalignment correction based on a refere... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120002253 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND LIGHT AMOUNT ADJUSTING METHOD According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes: a light source unit including light emitting elements for red, green, and blue; an image pickup section configured to receive, from a reference board on which light from the light source unit is irradiate... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110170152 | MEASURING METHOD, OPTICAL SCANNING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS A method for measuring a deviation in timing of start of writing in scanning lines is implemented by an optical scanning device that scans a surface to be scanned with light beams from light-emitting elements having first and second light-emitting elements which are arr... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110149358 | CONTACT-TYPE IMAGE SCANNER AND SCAN CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF A contact-type image scanner includes an illumination unit, a control unit and a photo-sensing unit. The illumination unit includes a first, a second and a third light source for respectively emitting different color light beams on an original surface. The control unit ... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110122465 | SYSTEM FOR ILLUMINATING AN ORIGINAL USING ADDITIONAL COLORS AND CAPTURING AN IMAGE THEREOF An imaging device including a base and an enclosed chamber positioned on the base. The enclosed chamber has a scanning surface inclined with respect to the base, a reflecting member positioned opposite to the scanning surface and an imaging member adjacent the scanning ... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110080626 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS An image reading apparatus which irradiates a document with light, and reads the document image based on the reflected light includes a light source which includes a plurality of LEDs, and irradiates the document with light, an LED current adjusting unit which sets the ... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110058237 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS An image reading apparatus includes: a light source to illuminate an original; a color sensor and a monochrome sensor to receive light reflected from the original illuminated by the light source to output an image signal; an amplifier to amplify the image signal from th... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110026087 | CALIBRATING FIELD UNIFORMITY Systems and methods systems and methods for calibrating field uniformity are disclosed. An exemplary method includes scanning the imaging area including a first media to obtain optical data for a specular reflectance map. The method also includes scanning the imaging ar... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20100309533 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTACT IMAGE SCANNING A method and apparatus are disclosed for scanning documents using a contact image scanner. The imaging apparatus comprises a light source for illuminating the document, a plurality of pixel sensors for generating a signal in response to light incident thereon, a lens fo... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100296141 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS An image reading apparatus generates color image data from an image on a medium, based on R-color, G-color, and B-color data, and includes: an unit that irradiates light to the medium; an unit that includes R-color, B-color, and G-color imaging members, which each outpu... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100245953 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS An image reading apparatus includes: a sheet table including a placement surface on which a sheet is placed; a light emitting device including light sources; a light emitting unit including a plurality of light emitting devices for emitting light to the placement surfac... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100238526 | DIFFUSE SURFACE ON LENSLET ARRAY DIFFUSER An illuminator system includes an illuminator array positioned adjacent to an image bearing surface, a light diffuser, and a linear sensor array. The light diffuser includes a plurality of rounded lenslets having convex or concave configuration positioned between the il... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100195171 | DOCUMENT READING APPARATUS A document reading apparatus includes a white LED including an LED and a fluorescent material and configured to illuminate a document reading position with light, a reading unit having a color line sensor and a monochrome line sensor and configured to read an image of a... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100142799 | AUTOMATIC COMPONENT TEACHING DEVICE There is provided an automatic part teaching device for creating part teaching data accurately indicating a form of a part regardless of its size. The automatic part teaching device includes: a cover sheet (173) having one side formed to have uniformly blue luste... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100118358 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An optical filter is provided on photoelectric conversion elements for monochrome reading. Each of a reflecting optical system and the optical filter has an end portion and a central portion in a predetermined direction. The optical filter suppresses light at a peak wav... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100033776 | BLACK CALIBRATION SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR DOCUMENT SCANNERS A method and systems for calibrating a document scanner are provided. The scanner calibration method includes providing a geometrically operative black absorption device having a structural geometry that is capable of receiving light and limiting propagation of the rece... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20090296172 | IMAGE READING DEVICE HAVING LINE SENSOR PERFORMING PRE-SCAN BASED ON CONDITION SET FOR MAIN-SCAN An image reading device includes a reading unit for reading a document. The reading unit includes red color green color and blue color light sources and a plurality of light receiving elements aligned in a main scanning direction. In a pre-scan performed precedent to a ... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090251745 | IMAGE DATA LUMINANCE COMPENSATING METHOD AND SHEET-FEEDING SCANNING APPARATUS USING SUCH METHOD The present invention relates to an image data luminance compensating method and a sheet-feeding scanning apparatus using such an image data luminance compensating method. According to the reference luminance value change of the reference background strip before and aft... | 10/08/2009 |
| 20090207462 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS An image reading apparatus includes: a light source emitting a plurality of colors; a light receiver including a plurality of pixels which receive lights of respective colors; an analog-to-digital converter which analog-to-digital converts analog signals obtained by the... | 08/20/2009 |
| 20090161139 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS, MULTIFUNCTION PRINTER APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD This invention is directed to provide a method capable of performing filter processing suitable for each of different image reading methods. This method includes the steps of causing a light emitting unit to sequentially irradiate an image original with light components... | 06/25/2009 |
| 20090128868 | SCANNING DEVICE WITH MULTIPLE LED LIGHT SOURCES AND APPLICATION THEREOF A scanning device with multiple LED light sources and an application thereof. The scanning device includes a housing, a chassis, a main LED light source and an auxiliary LED light source. A horizontal plane of the housing is connected to a sloped plane of the housing to... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090122370 | Image reading apparatus In a color reading apparatus for successively reading respective red, green, and blue colors in each line while a document is continuously conveyed to a plurality of line sensor units arranged in a zigzag manner, the line sensor units are arranged with a distance equal ... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090116084 | IMAGE READING DEVICE AND IMAGE READING METHOD A technology capable of preventing generation of a problem due to saturation of an output value in an image pick-up section caused by a variation of illumination light from a light source. An image reading device includes a plurality of light sources each of which illum... | 05/07/2009 |
| 20090086285 | SCAN APPARATUS HAVING AN ADJUSTABLE LIGHT SOURCE AND SCAN METHOD THEREOF A scan apparatus includes a control signal generating module, a light source module, a lighting module and a scanning module. The control signal generating module generates a control signal. The light source module provides light rays. The lighting module, electrically ... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090086293 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD There is provided a technique to make, in a case where a monochrome image is generated based on a color image, a chromatic image region on the color image distinguishable on the monochrome image. There are included a first image reading unit to acquire monochrome image ... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090040575 | SCANNING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DETERMINING QUANTITY OF REFERENCE LIGHT THEREFOR A scanning apparatus and a reference light quantity determining method includes scanning a patch that does not overlap previously established reference colors but displays each of the previously established reference colors in a plurality of regions that are spaced a po... | 02/12/2009 |
| 20090040574 | IMAGE SCANNING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF An image sensor using three-color, e.g., R, G, and B light-emitting elements assures a period in which all the three colors are turned on and periods in each of which one light-emitting element is turned off during a scan period per pixel, and integrates and measures am... | 02/12/2009 |
| 20090034031 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus which can perform a multiple exposure with a plurality of laser lights driven by the PWM signal without deteriorating the image quality of a line image and a character image. Scanning start points are controlled to be different between a first... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090034030 | MULTI-FUNTIONAL DEVICE HAVING SCANNER MODULE AND IMAGE SCANNING APPARATUS EMPLOYING THE SCANNER MOUDLE A multi-functional device comprising an image forming apparatus to form a printing image and a scanner module to scan an image in a main scanning direction. The scanner module includes an illuminator to illuminate a light to a document mount, a sensor unit to read an im... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20080316552 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DATA CAPTURE FROM IMAGED DOCUMENTS Methods and apparatus are disclosed for locating an area of interest within a digital image of a form captured by an imaging scanner. Specific examples include methods and apparatus for optical mark reading with a digital imaging scanner. In many of the methods, an imag... | 12/25/2008 |
| 20080297861 | IMAGE PROCESSING OF A PORTION OF MULTIPLE PATCHES OF A COLORBAR An image processing apparatus for use with a printed substrate is disclosed. The image processing apparatus comprises an imaging device configured to receive light reflected from a portion of multiple patches of a colorbar on the printed substrate and configured to proc... | 12/04/2008 |
| 20080291514 | LIGHT GUIDE DEVICE AND ILLUMINATION MODULE USING THE SAME An illumination module is provided in the invention. The illumination module includes a light source having a plurality of light emitting elements arranged in a linear array and a light guide device. The light guide device receives light from the light source and genera... | 11/27/2008 |
| 20080204831 | Image producing apparatus, image producing method, and image producing program An image producing apparatus includes a light-emitting element, a light-receiving section, a control section which controls the light-emitting element to emit a light by outputting a light-emitting control value to the light-emitting element, a recording section which r... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20080180754 | Image Illumination And Capture In A Scanning Device Scanning devices and method of use that permit the capture of high resolution images of an original that is illuminated by a light source that is located outside of the optical field of view of an image detector. In one aspect, the image detector may be a monochrome sen... | 07/31/2008 |
| 20080165396 | Transport Controls for a Media Device A method of scanning content comprises receiving an input signal indicating that content being displayed is to be scanned, sensing a duration of the received input signal, and scanning the content at a rate based at least in part on the sensed duration of the received i... | 07/10/2008 |
| 20080144139 | SCANNING DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING OUTPUT TIME OF LIGHT SOURCES An aspect of the present invention provides a scanning display apparatus capable of adjusting an output time of a light source. The apparatus can comprise a light modulator configured to modulate incident light in accordance with a driving signal and output modulated li... | 06/19/2008 |
| 20080088860 | Print Structure, Printing Method and Reading Method for Medium Surface with Print-Formed Dot Pattern With the aim of realizing an easy and inexpensive method of realizing a “stealth” dot pattern, whose presence on a medium surface is not visually recognizable, merely through minor improvements in the existing printing technology, the present invention provides dots... | 04/17/2008 |
| 20080088893 | Optical scanning device, optical scanning method, computer program product for executing optical scanning method, recording medium with computer program recorded thereon, image forming apparatus, and color image forming apparatus using the same An optical scanning device of the invention includes: n-odd (n≧2) light sources disposed at different positions at least in a sub scanning direction; a light source driving control part configured to control a light emitting state of the light source; and a sub-scanni... | 04/17/2008 |
| 20080062478 | Original-document illumination apparatus, image reading apparatus, color-original-document reading apparatus and image forming apparatus An original-document illumination apparatus includes an illuminated face on which an original-document is placed. The original-document illumination apparatus also includes a light-source unit having a plurality of light-emitting elements which are arranged along the ma... | 03/13/2008 |
| 20080048979 | Optical Method and Device for use in Communication A method and device are presented enabling communication between two or more parties. A pattern input at a first party side is identified and data indicative of the input pattern is generated. This data is used to operate an illumination process to create an illuminated... | 02/28/2008 |
