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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8004724 | Method and apparatus for image reading with synchronized readout and lighting control An image reading apparatus for reading an image on an original includes a reading unit for optically reading the image of the original while the image is illuminated by light from a light source; a moving unit for moving the reading unit relative to the original; a ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7420715 | Method and system for promoting scanning speed In accordance with the present invention, a method and a system for promoting scanning speed are provided. The method comprises steps of determining a transmission rate of a transit interface, adjusting system clock responsive to the transmission rate of the transit... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7394575 | Electronic device An electronic device includes a carriage on which an image sensor is mounted, a motor that drives the carriage, and servo-control-containing printed matter provided in one or more detection areas of the image sensor or one or more independently provided optical sens... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7355761 | Driving apparatus and method for image scanning and/or forming machine A driving apparatus for an office machine includes a driving motor rotating in first and second directions, a power transfer part transferring a power of the driving motor to a convey unit, a document discharge unit and a document supply unit, and a controller contr... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7345797 | Reduction of artifacts in a scanning device Stopping and starting the movement of media in a scanner before completion of scanning can generate artifacts in the display of the scanned image. These artifacts arise from measurements made during the deceleration of the media before stopping and the acceleration ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7307754 | Density control method for image control apparatuses and image forming apparatus capable of executing the method There is provided an image forming apparatus which is capable of quickly performing measurements required for obtaining a proper image density. The image forming apparatus having a plurality of image forming apparatuses performs an image density adjustment control p... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7301680 | Reduction of artifacts in a scanning device Stopping and starting the movement of media in a scanner before completion of scanning can generate artifacts in the display of the scanned image. These artifacts arise from measurements made during the deceleration of the media before stopping and the acceleration ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7281272 | Method and system for copyright protection of digital images A method and system for protecting digital images copied from a video RAM, including the steps of transmitting stored pixel data from a computer memory to a video RAM, identifying protected pixel data within the stored pixel data, modifying the stored pixel data, th... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277207 | Recording device A recording device includes an image retrieval unit, a memory, an image forming unit, and a control unit. The image retrieval unit retrieves images of the document pages as document image data. The control unit begins retrieving document image data from the memory a... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7274493 | Image reading apparatus and image reading method Where a magnification (enlargement/reduction of image) has been set through operation keys of an operation panel, a main CPU sends information on read magnification to a scanner CPU of a scanner section. In this case, where the magnification is not set in particular... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7254770 | Sensor apparatus and monitoring method of control system using detected data from sensor apparatus A counter within a rotary encoder outputs 8-bit count data CT for counting up at a period equal to or faster than the transmission period of positional data. When the rotary encoder receives a communication frame for positional data request command STX at a receivin... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7253926 | Image-processing apparatus, method and program for outputting an image to a plurality of functions There is described a compound apparatus, having a plurality of outputting functions including at least a copy function. The compound apparatus includes: an image-reading device to read an original image residing on a document so as to convert the original image into... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7248387 | Scanning speed control device and method A control device and a method for controlling scanning speed of a scanner. The control device includes a decision device and a driving device. The decision device further includes an image buffer, an up-down counter and a comparator. The decision device receives the... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7239433 | Image reading apparatus An image reading apparatus which includes a timing adjusting circuit for adjusting a generation timing of a drive signal for driving at least an image pickup element which reads an object image and outputs an image signal of the object image, a memory circuit for st... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7233351 | Method for high resolution incremental imaging A method and apparatus to capture a high resolution photograph of a target. A focal zone of a linear image sensing array is displaced across an area containing a target to be photographed. The displacement may be angular or linear with appropriate scaling to yield t... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7233410 | Printer control apparatus and method of controlling the same, printer and method of controlling the same, reader and method of controlling the same, and image forming system There is provided a printer control apparatus which can be applied to an image forming apparatus in which a plurality of types of readers and a plurality of types of printers can be connected to a single controller, and which enable efficient transfer of image data ... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7209264 | Pre-connection telephony data signal exchanges A method for conveying digital information can include initiating a telephone connection to a receiving device. Prior to establishing a voice channel connection with the receiving device, supplemental data can be digitally encoded into a CNG transmission. The CNG tr... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7206103 | Image reading apparatus and image reading method After prescan of a plurality of images on a photographic film, designation of an image to be processed and verification of the image to be processed, the photographic film is conveyed at high speed to a position where the reading conditions for the image to be proce... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7202981 | Method and system for increasing scanning speed A method and a system for increasing scanning speed are provided. The method may include determining a transmission rate of a transit interface, scanning an original to generate an image data, and adjusting a cycle time of the image data to change a data generating ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7199892 | Facsimile apparatus and repeater When a multicast instruction is input, a facsimile apparatus transmits an input plurality of sub-addresses together with image data to a repeater in a single communication transaction. Thus, effective communication can be performed. ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7187477 | Image scanning apparatus with speed-change gear module The present invention relates to an image scanning apparatus having a scanning module, a transmission belt, a speed-change gear module, and a driving device. The driving device drives the transmission belt by using the speed-change gear module so as to drive the sca... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7170659 | Reduction of artifacts in a scanning device Stopping and starting the movement of media in a scanner before completion of scanning can generate artifacts in the display of the scanned image. These artifacts arise from measurements made during the deceleration of the media before stopping and the acceleration ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7164437 | Film scanner The image scanning system (52) of the present invention scans slides and film strips containing photographic images and creates a corresponding plurality of digital representations of the photographic images. The system (52) includes a touch screen mon... | 01/16/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7154640 | Multi-beam scanning apparatus and image forming apparatus using the same This invention is to obtain a multi-beam scanning apparatus which always executes synchronization detection at the same timing to prevent any jitter, and an image forming apparatus using the apparatus. In a multi-beam scanning apparatus which guides a plurality of l... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7149003 | Bi-directional flatbed scanning and automatic document feed A method for scanning successive images including the steps of scanning a first image bearing media employing a top to bottom scan direction and scanning a second image bearing media employing a bottom to top scan direction. ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7142334 | Reading unit for a document The invention relates to a reading unit (1) for a document (2) having a control and/or evaluation device (44), incorporating a scanner device (25) for reading the document (2), and a guide mechanism (6) for the document (... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7139088 | Communication apparatus and communication method When a data communication apparatus as a sender gateway receives instruction information for instructing a communication system via ITU recommendation T.38 or a communication system via ITU recommendation T.37 from a sender facsimile apparatus as an analogue communi... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7136202 | Apparatus for feeding documents in a facsimile An apparatus for feeding documents in a facsimile includes a pickup roller for picking up documents one by one, a white roller that faces a read module and rotates, the read module for reading data from the documents transferred by the pickup roller, a discharge rol... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7136200 | Method for determining restored scanning position A method for position restoration. By comparing the graphic data and the restored graphic data, the graphic data closest to the restored graphic data is selected. Therefore, the graphic data scanned subsequently is correctly connected to the restored graphic data to... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7133163 | Device applied to scaling factor of horizontal scan of a scanner and method thereof The present invention relates to a device applied to scaling factor of horizontal scan of a scanner and a method thereof. The present invention lets signals be processed by a multiplexer, a shifter, and an adder to achieve the above function, or lets signals be proc... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7126711 | Voice/facsimile/modem call discrimination method for voice over packet networks A method of discriminating voice, data, and facsimile calls communicated through a voice-over-packet network. The gateway is provided with software which can identify the existence of an answer signal (ANS) or a modified answer signal (ANSam) communicated between an... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7123386 | Image reading apparatus An image reading apparatus of the present invention is provided with a driving unit for supplying a driving force to a scanner module and for supplying a driving force to an ADF. Changeover between the driving force for the scanner module and the driving force for t... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7120447 | Selectable mode vocoder management algorithm for CDMA based networks A method and apparatus to dynamically control selectable vocoder rates in a CDMA network to optimally improve forward and reverse link capacity as necessary. To improve capacity, a number of vocoder rates are used, each requiring a different average data rate and pr... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7103637 | Network file sharing method and system A method for writing file data from client to server which comprises writing file data from a client to a server, wherein the client issues to the server a file transfer proposal that includes the names of a plurality of files to be transferred and attributes of eac... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7099020 | Image processing apparatus switchable from full color mode to monochromatic mode In an image processing apparatus for processing image data in either operation mode of a full color mode or a monochromatic mode having processing speed higher than the full color mode, at least a part of an image processing circuit comprises a rewritable device suc... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7068397 | Image forming apparatus and image reading device for use in the apparatus An image forming apparatus which forms an image on a recording material, which has: a writing section to write according to the image data; an oscillator to generate a synchronized synchronizing clock signal; a spreading clock generator to spread the band of a synch... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7046266 | Scanner system A method of scanning for writing a pattern on a surface, including providing a scanning beam comprised of a plurality of independently addressable sub-beams, scanning the surface with the scanning beam a plurality of times, the sub-beams scanning the surface side-by... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7045773 | Optical scanning apparatus for accurately detecting and correcting position of optical beam in subscanning direction, and the method An optical scanning apparatus is provided, in which the optical scanning apparatus includes: a light source emitting an optical beam; an optical deflection unit deflecting the optical beam emitted from the light source; a scanning optical arrangement scanning a scan... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7012897 | Link quality agent A link quality agent running in a computer embedded in a device, such as an optical communication transceiver, to monitor an optical signal quality of the link. In one embodiment, avalanche photodiode (APD) and filter wheel values on each side of the free space link... | 03/14/2006 |
