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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7804625 | Scanning units and image reading devices A scanning unit is configured to slide along a guide shaft that extends in a predetermined direction. The scanning unit includes a carriage configured to slide along the guide shaft, a bearing which is disposed on a carriage and through which the guide shaft passes,... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7800794 | Original transporting device and image reading apparatus An original transporting device includes: an original placing portion; an original discharging portion; a first transport path that connects the original placing portion and the original discharging portion; a second transport path that is branched from the first tr... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7800795 | Scanning method and an image-processing device including the same An original comprises a first page and a second page as disposed face-down on the platen surface of an image-processing device. The platen is scanned to form a platen image. The positions of two diagonally-opposite corners of the original are determined based on a f... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7800793 | 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... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7800790 | Document reading unit with easily removable document contact glass, and scanner and image forming apparatus using the same A document reading unit has an image sensor mounted in a box-like support base so that a document can be read by the image sensor through an opening in the support base. A contact glass disposed in the opening covers the image sensor and supports the document while ... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7800792 | Image reading method and image reading apparatus Disclosed is an image reading method for reading an image on a document, including: reading cyclically the image in a main scanning direction with using an image pickup section, while relatively moving at least one of a light emitting section and the document irradi... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7800791 | Image sensor An image sensor 20A contains a photodiode array portion 21, a signal processor 22, a switching instruction part 23A and a control part 24A. Each switch SWn is provided between the corresponding photodiode PDn ... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7800787 | Image reading apparatus An image reading apparatus includes a solid-state image sensor having a pixel array section in which pixels each including a photoelectric transducer are arrayed, a charge transfer register that transfers a signal charge transferred from each of the pixels of the pi... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7800788 | Upright image processing apparatus with pivotable image reading portion An image processing apparatus comprises: an image reading portion which has a box-shaped first housing with a reading surface, and a scanning device displaceable along the reading surface in the first housing, and reads a first image on a document by relatively disp... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7800789 | Analog front-end circuit and electronic device An analog front-end circuit controlling an imaging device and processing an analog image signal output from the imaging device includes: an analog processing section that receives an analog image signal from the imaging device, provides the image signal with predete... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7796306 | Image processing apparatus with a deleting portion, image processing method for deleting image data, and image processing program product with image data deleting function An image processing apparatus includes a compression/expansion device capable of compressing and expanding image data in a form of JBIG format, a nonvolatile memory which stores the image data compressed in the form of the JBIG format by the compression/expansion de... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7796307 | Image reading apparatus and copying apparatus An image reading apparatus including: first reading sensor to read an image of an original document at a first position; a second reading sensor at second position downstream; a circulating transport path; a first switchback provided between the first and second pos... | 09/14/2010 |
| RE41683 | Optical lens of optical scanner An optical scanner that may assemble the lens design for varying the focus and resolution, having a light source, a reflection compound mirror, a charge coupled device, a basic objective lens and a compound lens. The basic objective lens is designed by simulation so... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7796308 | Image reading apparatus An image reading apparatus capable of easily detecting the width of a document is provided that can reduce the number of component parts. A surface to be detected of a moving section that moves in linkage with the movement of a document guide is detected using an im... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7796309 | Integrating analog markups with electronic documents A document with one or more analog markups is obtained. An original electronic document corresponding to the document is also identified. The one or more analog markups are converted to one or more digital annotations, and the one or more digital annotations are sto... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7791769 | Method for providing film image and image display apparatus providing the film image A method for providing a film image and an image display apparatus for providing the film image are provided. The method includes determining a scheme of an input image signal; if the input image signal is determined to be an interlaced image signal, converting the ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7791770 | Image processing apparatus, control method and program therefor A scanned image is registered in a storage unit. Attribute information for managing a registered image is set in an attribute information table. The relationship between the registered image and a related image in the storage unit is set in a related information tab... | 09/07/2010 |
| RE41568 | Closed circuit control device for scanner A closed circuit control device for controlling carrier speed of a scanner. An optical meter is attached to the transparent glass panel of a scanner such that an image of the optical meter is formed on an optical sensor such as a charge couple device or a contact im... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7782501 | Light-orientation adjusting unit, optical writing unit having light-orientation adjusting unit, and image forming apparatus having optical writing unit A light-orientation adjusting unit for use with a light-receiving member includes an optical unit, a posture control unit, a first unit supporter, and a second unit supporter. The optical unit passes through a light beam toward the light-receiving member. The postur... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7782498 | Image reading apparatus and method with reduced wake-up time after sleep mode An image reading apparatus is provided that includes an image sensor configured to convert image light of a document into an image signal, an optical unit configured to project the image light of the document on the image sensor, a drive unit configured to drive the... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7782500 | Image reading apparatus and copying apparatus An image reading apparatus including: a circulating transport path to transport original documents; a first reading section to read images at a first reading position on the original documents; and a second reading section to read images on the original documents at... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7782502 | Image reading device and reading-characteristic correction method for image reading device Gains and offsets of the input-output characteristic of a second side reading unit are controlled so as to match input-output characteristic of a first side reading unit on the basis of image data of a gray chart read by the first side reading unit and the second si... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7782499 | Image scanning apparatus with preview function and method therefor An image scanning apparatus with a preview function includes a scanning unit that scans a plurality of documents to obtain scanned images of the plurality of documents; a display unit; and a control unit that controls the display unit to display the scanned images o... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7777922 | Image reader In an image reader that can adjust a distance between a platen glass and a close-contact-type image sensor (CIS) without disassembly, a CIS unit includes a CIS and a resilient body which biases the CIS toward the platen glass. A CIS roller holder includes a spacer, ... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7777921 | Digital scanning control method and system Signals from a color (multi-row) full width array sensor are used to detect and correct for motion quality issues in a constant velocity transport or platen document scanner. This capitalizes on the geometry of the full width array sensor, in which three or four row... | 08/17/2010 |
| RE41526 | Method and apparatus for restoring compressed image processing system and method of decoding a current image The present invention relates to an image processing technique, and in particular to a method for restoring a compressed image by using a hybrid motion compensation discrete cosine transform (hybrid MC/DCT) mechanism, including: a step of defining a smoothing functi... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7777920 | Image copier and image copying method An image copier according to the invention comprises a scanner for reading an image and a printer for forming an image on sheet, and the scanner includes a document table for positioning an original document from which an image is to be read; a document holding cove... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7773271 | Filter circuit, and image sensor, image sensor module, and image reading apparatus provided therewith A filter circuit has: a first and a second current mirror circuit that are each built with a plurality of transistors and that respectively pass a first and a second mirror current according to a constant current; an input terminal via which an input pulse signal is... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7773270 | Image scanner feature detection Systems are disclosed for detecting an unwanted artifact in an image scanner. An exemplary system includes a treated component of the image scanner, the treated component treated such that light reflects differently from the treated component than light reflected by... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7773272 | Image reading apparatus An image reading apparatus that includes: a document delivering unit; a switchback delivering unit that pulls a document into a switchback delivery path extended to an opening formed on an external surface of an apparatus housing from a predetermined position of the... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7773273 | Method and apparatus for removing show-through in scanned image Provided are a method and apparatus for removing show-through of a scanned image. The method includes: performing forward scanning on a medium placed on a glass platen of an image scanner; performing backward scanning on the medium; and removing show-through of a fo... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7768676 | Image reading apparatus An image reading apparatus has a scan quality parameter extraction part, a scan quality evaluation part and a notification part. The scan quality parameter extraction part extracts scan quality parameters representing the quality of a scanned image from image data b... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7764406 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a sheet discharge unit, a reading unit disposed above the sheet discharge unit, an operating panel, and an opening portion formed between the reading unit and the sheet mount unit such that the sheet can be taken out from the fron... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7764407 | Flatbed image system having magnetically levitated carriage The present invention provides an image system comprising providing magnetic transport rails, spacing magnetic flux rails from the magnetic transport rails, positioning a position gradient strip adjacent to the magnetic transport rails and securing a magnetically le... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7755807 | Image reading device and image forming apparatus The image reading device of the present invention is an image reading device comprising a reading unit reading an image of an original document, a clear plate disposed between the original document and the reading unit, a clear photoemitting layer included in the cl... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7755809 | Laser scanning optical system and image forming apparatus A laser scanning optical system converts a plurality of beams emitted from the laser diode (LD) into parallel light using a collimator lens, shapes the parallel light using an aperture, and executes exposure of a plurality of lines simultaneously on a photoreceptor ... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7755808 | Document scanner dust detection systems and methods Embodiments herein begin by sensing first document presence data of a media sheet in a media path using a scanner. Then, the embodiments calculate a background correction factor for scanning the media sheet based on input from the scanner. Second document presence d... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7755810 | Image reading apparatus According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided an image reading apparatus including: a first plate including a stationary document reading region; an image reader configured to scan a document on the first plate; a carriage supporting the image reader in... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7751094 | Image reading apparatus and image forming machine provided with the same An image reading apparatus for generating image data corresponding to a document image, includes: an irradiating section for irradiating light rays to an image bearing surface of a document; a housing formed with a slit for restrictedly passing light rays reflected ... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7751093 | Copying system and method A copying system is capable of generating image data from an existing representation and communicating the image data to one or more associated marking systems for distributed copy output of sheet media bearing an image corresponding to the existing representation. ... | 07/06/2010 |
