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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7440148 | System for manipulating pages of a material The present invention relates to turning and recording and/or reproducing multiple pages or leaves from a material, such as a book or periodical. A leaf lifting mechanism lifts the leaves of the material (e.g., book, periodical, etc.) from which the images are to be... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7430035 | Automatic device for turning the pages of a bound document The invention concerns an automatic device for turning the pages of a bound document comprising a support (11) whereon is arranged the document, means (14) for separating by suction one page from the other pages to be turned and for turning the separat... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7417765 | Image processing apparatus and method, image processing program, and storage medium An image processing apparatus which includes an image reading apparatus comprising a first memory, a book image corrector, and a selector. The first memory stores optical positioning information of the image reading apparatus. The book image corrector performs an im... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7302473 | Internet information displaying apparatus and internet information displaying method An Internet information displaying apparatus comprising character signal generating means for generating a character signal and displaying it on the screen of the displaying means, and character signal generation controlling means for detecting the state of transmis... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7274494 | Height adjustment structure A height adjustment structure for an image-scanning device. The scanning device has a guiding rod, an optical system and a document panel. The guiding rod and the document panel are fixed relative to each other. The optical system includes a box body and an axial ro... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7254902 | Sheet dryer A sheet dryer includes sprockets and a delivery chain, at least one heat-resistant glass plate, at least one lower-surface drying lamp, a guide plate, a plurality of first discharge holes, and a plurality of second discharge holes. The sprockets and delivery chain c... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7251349 | Automatic table locating technique for documents Table-like structures in documents are located by analysis of sub-regions (crops) on the document. The analysis involves determining the location of lines having lengths above a certain threshold and assigning these lines to groups. A set of adjacent lines is assign... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7224496 | Positioning device for scanned object of scanner The invention relative to a positioning device for the scanned object of a scanner may make a positioning function to a document or a book to be scanned. Through designing a positioning element on the shell body of a scanner, a book of many pages may be positioned o... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7162060 | Method, system, and computer program product for control of platen movement during a live scan A method, system, and computer program product is provided that controls platen movement during a live scan. The platen moves in response to finger movement. The present invention then applies a counter force that counters the platen movement. In one embodiment, the... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7140534 | Data recording medium, reading device, recording device, and methods thereof There are provided a data recording medium, a reading device for reading the data recording medium, a recording device for reading the data recording medium and recording data to other media, and methods thereof able to prevent forgery without comparing visible info... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7050145 | Device for copying both sides of an object in a single pass using an office copier A device for use with a copier to make copies of both sides of a document or other objects in a single pass. The device is configured to rest on a copier platen without being attached to the platen and without deriving power from the copier. A document holder in the... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7001024 | Image input apparatus using projected light The present invention provides an image input apparatus into which a three-dimensional image as well as a two-dimensional image can be easily input. This image input apparatus includes an image pick-up unit, a projector unit, and a mover unit. The projector unit pro... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6996290 | Binding curvature correction Various systems, methods, and programs embodied on a computer readable medium are provided for binding curvature correction in an image of pages of a bound medium. The binding curvature correction involves electronically acquiring an image of a set of pages of a bou... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6956664 | Generation of cover sheets by networked printer The disclosure relates to an apparatus and method of generating documents having one or more cover pages. A document may be printed with one or more covers. A user may format the covers as being printed on a front page, printed on a back page, printed on both the fr... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6954290 | Method and apparatus to correct distortion of document copies Pages of books are copied without distortion due to curvature of the page near the book binding or the distortion in a copied page is corrected using the spacing of equidistant bars on tape strips applied to the top and bottom edges of a page before copying. The tap... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6862074 | Portable device for the photographing of book pages Two transparent plates constitute with each other an angle variable from about 60 to 120 degrees along their common edge. A book to photograph is opened at the chosen pages and placed sitting on said common edge. A photographic camera is attached near the free edge ... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6859233 | Auto focus mechanism in image input apparatus An auto focus mechanism mounts a target of reading on a manuscript board and moves an optical read unit which is long in a main scanning direction along a sub scanning direction to read an image of the target of reading. The auto focus mechanism is provided to an im... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6687420 | Image reading apparatus In an image reading apparatus in which a document is read with scanning by a image pickup device, a height of the document and an outline of the document are detected. Based on the detected height and outline data, together with a calculating of a documen... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6665128 | Corrective lens for copying books An improved corrective lens for copying pages of a book pressed flat upon a document support glass of a xerographic copying machine or document scanner. The corrective lens is shaped to fit in the space between the book pages to be copied and the document... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6611362 | Automatic book page turner for imaging As the individual pages of a book having a gutter and outside edge margins and being held at least partially open are being automatically sequentially turned over, in coordination therewith a flattening force is applied to the unimaged gutter margin areas... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6603580 | Scanner having a variable object plane An input scanner for scanning three-dimensional objects, such as books, on a platen. The input scanner includes a light source for illuminating a three-dimensional object, an elongated sensor array for producing a digital representation of the image on th... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6587227 | Copier having contoured track guides An input scanner for scanning three-dimensional objects, such as books, on a platen. An elongated raster scanner produces a digital representation of a line image in an object plane that is a fixed distance in front of the raster scanner's input optics. W... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6573974 | Image forming apparatus capable of producing high-quality bound documents of any thickness An image forming apparatus provided with a function for binding a set of recording sheets by interposing said set of recording sheets between a folded cover sheet. When cover mode is set, the cover sheet is transported in a folding unit. The folding unit ... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6572791 | Electroconductive elastic member, elastic member and image formation equipment There is disclosed an elastic member constituted of polyurethane foam obtained by agitationally mixing with water, a urethane prepolymer synthesized from a polyol and a polyisocyanate, characterized by simultaneously employing as polyols, a (A) polymer po... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6574014 | Automatic book page turner for imaging The pages of a book being held at least partially open may be sequentially automatically turned over from one side of the book to the other by pivoting an elongated arm from one side of the book toward the other and turning over individual pages with a va... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6493060 | Duplexing in automatic document feeder utilizing a path shorter than the length of the document to be duplexed The footprint of a document scanning unit such as a copier, facsimile machine or document scanner or combinations thereof is reduced by causing overlap of the leading and trailing edges of long document sheets to be scanned in the document delivery roller... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6330050 | Image processing device for providing correction of a curvature distortion of a bound portion of a spread book An image processing device for processing an image read by an image scanner or similar image reading device is disclosed. The image processing device is capable of accurately detecting, without resorting to a range finding sensor or similar special sensin... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6323936 | Machine for exposing a panel to laser radiation The invention relates to a machine for exposing a panel to laser radiation, said panel having a working length L in a first direction Y, and being subdivided into N successive segments. The machine has a fixed structure; a horizontal panel support that is... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6313954 | Corrective lens for copying books A corrective lens for copying pages of a book pressed flat upon a document support glass of a xerographic copying machine or document scanner. The corrective lens is shaped to fit in the space between the book pages to be copied and the document glass of ... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6307614 | Duplexing in automatic document feeder utilizing a path shorter than the length of the document to be duplexed The footprint of a document scanning unit such as a copier, facsimile machine or document scanner or combinations thereof is reduced by causing overlap of the leading and trailing edges of long document sheets to be scanned in the document delivery roller... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6281990 | Book page document image reading apparatus The book page document image reading apparatus according to the present invention comprises a reading means for reading an image of a spread book page document placed on with the binding section being aligned to the reference position, an image size chang... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6268909 | Image forming apparatus In an image forming apparatus that folds plural sheets in folio, an image forming unit forms images an a recording area on the sheets and forms a margin between the recording area and another forming area. A projecting unit folds the sheets upon nipping t... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6239863 | Removable cover for protecting a reticle, system including and method of using the same A removable cover for protecting a reticle used in a lithography system is described. The removable cover includes a frame and a membrane supported by the frame. The membrane is transparent to an inspection wavelength such that the reticle can be inspecte... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6195152 | Accessory for use in copying bound materials The invention provides an accessory for use in copying a page of a bound material using a copier having a scanning window and an optical reader on one side of the window. The accessory includes a page engaging member for engaging a face of the page to be ... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6056258 | Bound document imager An apparatus for imaging books or other bound volumes which includes a book supporting system and an optical system positioned above the book supporting system and mounted for movement along a vertical axis toward and away from the book support system. Th... | 05/02/2000 |
| 6055036 | Book image reading apparatus and book image forming apparatus An image reading apparatus capable of automatically reading the images of a book or similar bound document while turning over its pages, and an image forming apparatus capable of printing the images of the book in accordance with an image signal output fr... | 04/25/2000 |
| 6041146 | Image reading apparatus for reading book-like documents An image reader for reading book-like documents placed on a document platen in a face upward condition, said image reader comprises a shading reference panel provided beside the document platen which is white in color and of uniform density, an image read... | 03/21/2000 |
| 5969829 | Image reader that stores sets of luminance correction data corresponding to document a surface height An image reader capable of outputting excellent quality read images, without illumination irregularities, similar to that of flat documents even when the document surface is curved as in the case of book-like documents. An image reader provided with a mem... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5969795 | Image reading apparatus A book scanner which reads an image of a book or a bound document placed as turned upward, computes the document inclination from the outer shape of the document, detects the top end of the bound part of the document from the document height, thereby dete... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5903364 | Sheet-fed scanner with selectively variable document feed-in and feed-out positions A sheet-fed scanner with selectively variable document feed-in and feed-out positions is provided. The sheet-fed scanner includes conventional scanning means for performing a scanning process on a document; conventional diving means for driving the docume... | 05/11/1999 |
