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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7092005 | Image position confirming device, method of supporting image position confirmation, and recording medium When an image, which is an object of reading and which is recorded on a photographic film, is to be registered at a reading position of a film scanner by an operator, following processes are repeated: results of a CCD sensor picking-up the reading position and perip... | 08/15/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6975433 | Method and apparatus for reading image information An image information reading apparatus that can obtain high quality images without an effect of noise and a photographing condition or the like is realized even in the case where a low-bit A/D converter is used. The apparatus comprises control means for switching be... | 12/13/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6757083 | Image input apparatus There is provided an image input apparatus for photoelectrically reading an image and applying predetermined image processing to image data obtained so as to provide output image data comprising a pre-reading section, a processing-condition setting section, a displa... | 06/29/2004 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 5991010 | Image reading apparatus The amount of light emitted from a lamp is adjusted by a turret and a diaphragm for each light of the component colors and is irradiated on a photographic film via a light diffusion box. Light transmitted through the photographic film is made incident on ... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5973769 | Book-copying shadow block An unfolded book, placed upon a copy machine, can have its two exposed pages reproduced without a shadow between the two pages using this invention. A bar formed in the shape of a "T" is placed, with the "T" upside down, and with the shaft of the "T" rest... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5831750 | Image reader having height distribution correction for a read document An image reading apparatus which reads document surfaces of open book-like documents placed on a document platen in a face upward condition and detects height of the document to control an image reading operation. An image reader reads the document platen... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5760925 | Platenless book scanning system with a general imaging geometry An overhead scanning system records pages from bound documents in an upright and open condition. The scanning system is defined with a general imaging geometry that makes the scanning system readily portable, and provides the scanning system with a variab... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5751446 | Image reading device for accurately reading spread pages of a book document An image reading device for an image forming apparatus and capable of reading the spread pages of a book document laid on a table. Even with a book document of the kind bound by staples or wire and provided with a cover by pasting, i.e., whose spread size... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5177617 | Book edge copier inversion sorting A method and apparatus improving the use of a book edge copier, in which for book edge copying, a control selection is provided so that for every other copy made, the copying process is altered to invert the copy to produce a set of copies with the same t... | 01/05/1993 |
| 5072252 | Fiber optic book copier Full pages of books may be photocopied without damage to the book bindings by placing the open book on a wedge of fiber optics perpendicularly aligned to the copier platen to optically couple the photocopier to the book pages.... | 12/10/1991 |
| 5053819 | Copier with improved platen for books to be copied A photocopier for books has a casing on whose top surface is mounted a platten. The platten is set back from the front of the casing, and it extends to a downwardly inclined support surface adapted to support the half of an opened book whose other half is... | 10/01/1991 |
| 4812881 | Automatic image-density control system An automatic image-density control system for photo-copying the page-to-page content of an open book, in which optimum values (of exposure or development bias) needed for precisely copying the page-to-page content are initially established by performing e... | 03/14/1989 |
| 4711554 | Scanning type copying machine In a scanning type copying machine of the present invention, a scanner scans divided regions of a document prior to real copy operation when a dividing copy mode is selected by a book copy mode selection key. Density control data in the respective divided... | 12/08/1987 |
| 4673286 | Frictionless vacuum feeder for book copying An arrangement for turning pages of a facedown booklet for use with a copier. A rotating vacuum roll located between two platens peel pages from the book as the book is moved back and forth between the two platens. As the book moves over the vacuum roll, ... | 06/16/1987 |
| 4637709 | Apparatus for generating an image from within a sheet-like member The surface of a sheet-like member such as a sheet of paper may be illuminated by surrounding the member with confronted electrodes. Passing an AC voltage across the electrodes generates a corona discharge within the member. The light so produced facilita... | 01/20/1987 |
| 4636868 | Copiers A document carrier, typically for supporting a book to be copied in a document copier by location of an opened page against an inclined window in a scanner housing, which carrier comprises a pair of separate plates (26, 28) supported in a trough-like conf... | 01/13/1987 |
| 4633080 | Document scanner having an improved book support assembly A document scanner in which a book is supported by a trough shaped support which is movable up and down in order to place the book in contact with the scanner housing. The housing includes a wedge-shaped portion having at least one window through which a ... | 12/30/1986 |
| 4623247 | Document scanners A document scanner includes a wedge-shaped scanner housing (16, 18), vertically movable on a main housing (10) to locate an inclined scanned window against a document resting on a trough-like document support (14) beneath the scanner housing. The scanner ... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4486655 | Character and picture reading device A character reader is provided in the form of a plate having a light source and a photoconductive layer on either side of the light source. The photoconductive layers may be provided with optical plates and transparent covers, if desired. In use, the devi... | 12/04/1984 |
| 4035077 | Copying apparatus A cover device for pressing originals having different thicknesses with equal force against a glass exposure plate of photocopying apparatus comprises a bordering frame swingable between closed and open positions and, inside the frame, a platelike coverin... | 07/12/1977 |
| 4028107 | Process and apparatus for producing printed matter Process and apparatus for printing a plurality of imposed pages in which proofs of said pages are manufactured, the proofs then being confined in co-planar, predetermined relation by engaging the sheets solely along selected edges thereof, and while holdi... | 06/07/1977 |
