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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8134761 | Document processing apparatus, method thereof, and program product for executing the method A document processing apparatus which scans a document is disclosed. The document processing apparatus includes a scanning condition managing unit for managing plural scanning conditions to be applied to the document based on a category of the document, a scanning r... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8064108 | Full-zone optical image addressing apparatus and method A full-zone optical image addressing apparatus, including an addressing device, an image extraction converter, a comparator, an AND gate and a counter. The addressing device is located at the enclosure of the scanner and includes a plurality of geometric patterns. E... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064107 | Tensioned scanner rails A rail system made of one or more flexible guide rods, each consisting of a tension rod, is used to support lightweight, mobile devices such as carriages, scanning heads or optical sensors. The rail is configured to permit movement of the mobile device, when driven ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8040577 | Image reading apparatus In an image reading apparatus, a retreat control device moves a conveyance target through a conveyance mechanism, when a stop operation is performed by a stop control device, in an opposite direction to an image reading direction to a position further from a restart... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8018631 | Original reading device and image forming apparatus A line image sensor reads an image of a reading position on a contact glass by a plurality of lines in a main-scanning direction. A replacing unit replaces, when there is a pixel whose read values of read data from a plurality of read lines in a same main scanning p... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7973984 | Image reading apparatus An image reading apparatus includes an image reading unit that can move along a scanning direction, and reads primary image data from a medium arranged on a medium arrangement surface by moving the image reading unit from a home position to a sub-scanning direction.... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7903299 | Scanner capable of selecting scanning positions and scanning method for the scanner A scanner capable of selecting scanning positions includes a scanning window, a scanning module and a control processing unit. Before a sheet of documents is scanned, the control processing unit moves the scanning module to a first location to generate a first image... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7869102 | Image reader Provided is an image reader including: a transparent original mounting plate on which an original is mounted; a support which has an appearance larger than that of the original mounting plate and supports the original mounting plate; a reading unit which optically r... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7843613 | System and method for automated processing of consecutively scanned document processing jobs The subject application is directed to a system and method for the automated configuration for document input devices. A document processing device first receives a document, which is scanned to detect an indicia on one of the sheets of the document. The indicia, in... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7729019 | Image reading system and image reading program An object of this invention is to provide an image reading apparatus which can reselect a film type after prescanning, and after confirming the result on the monitor, perform actual scanning. To achieve this object, a film scanner selects from a color table storage ... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7688480 | Automatic scanning parameter setting device and method An automatic scanning parameter setting device and method. The automatic scanning parameter setting device is a scanner that automatically sets the scanning parameters of a plurality of scan images so that scanning can be conducted in batches. The automatic scanning... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7688481 | Scanning apparatus with different resolutions The present invention relates to a scanning apparatus with different resolutions. The scanning apparatus includes a casing, a scanning module, a reflective module, a first lens, a second lens, a first sensing element, a second sensing element and a main reflective m... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7675655 | Moving object scanning apparatus and method Apparatus for scanning a moving object includes a visible waveband sensor 12 oriented to collect a series of images of the object as it passes through a field of view 16. An image processor 14 uses the series of images to form a composite image.... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7672025 | Apparatus for detecting front edge of a document and determining the home position of an image scanning module An apparatus for detecting front edge of a document and determining home position of an image scanning module has a detecting light source near an outlet end of a document feeding track and aligned with an image reader of the image scanning module. The detecting lig... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7616357 | Image processing apparatus, method for controlling image processing apparatus A scanner unit 105 of an MFP 100 performs prescanning and generates white area determination data 301. Next, at the scanning operation, the scanner unit 105 refers to the white area determination data 301 to detect a white stripe. ... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7518765 | Image reading apparatus and multi-functional apparatus having grounded pressing plate An image reading apparatus includes a transport path through which a medium to be read is transported, an image reading section disposed in a middle of the transport path and reading an image formed on the medium to be read that is transported along the transport pa... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7483184 | Method and system for using an optical sensor array to control a labeling device A method for using an optical sensor array to control a labeling device includes scanning a surface texture of an imageable media with the optical sensor array, collecting surface data corresponding to the surface texture of the imageable media, and controlling the ... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7460280 | Image-reading apparatus for reading an image on a document by controlling an index period and a line-thinning rate based on a magnification factor An image-reading apparatus reads an image on a document by controlling a main-scanning operation in accordance with an index period, a sub-scanning operation in accordance with a line-thinning rate, and a reading velocity of reading the image in a sub-scanning direc... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7440149 | Arrangement and method for correcting different transfer characteristic curves for segmented image sensors (CCDs) The invention provides an arrangement and a method for generating electrical image signals from an image original. The arrangement is, for example, a film scanner which illuminates or transilluminates a photographic image on a film using an illumination device. Opti... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7433092 | Transparency media adapter and methods of use thereof Transparency media adapter and methods of using the same. Implementations of a system may comprise an imaging device having a light source and at least one sensor. A media adapter operatively associated with the imaging device includes a first reflective surface and... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7425982 | Method and apparatus for resampling line scan data A method and an apparatus to accept line-scan data sets at a camera rate from a line-scan camera and resample the line-scan data sets to produce resampled line image data sets at a desired sampling distance. Each line-scan data set is of an object imaged for a fixed... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7420717 | Method and apparatus for scanning image A method and an apparatus for scanning an image. The method includes determining a first side of the periphery of an original document while moving an image sensor, detecting first and second reference points representing first and second end points of the first sid... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7403313 | Automatic scanning parameter setting device and method An automatic scanning parameter setting device and method. The automatic scanning parameter setting device is a scanner that automatically sets the scanning parameters of a plurality of scan images so that scanning can be conducted in batches. The automatic scanning... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7403306 | Image reading with high fit accuracy An image reading apparatus includes a guide rod; a housing member having a guide part for abutting a document placed on a document table and positioning one side of the document on a table face of the document table and a first positioning part and a second position... | 07/22/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7391430 | Image forming apparatus with led heads staggered in sub-scanning direction In an image forming apparatus, a plurality of light emitting device array units for drawing image data on a photoconductor are arranged in a main scanning direction corresponding to an axial direction of the photoconductor with staggered positioning in a sub-scannin... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7391540 | Sheet-fed scanner capable of switching backgrounds In a sheet-fed scanner capable of switching backgrounds, a scanning module scans a document, which is transported by a sheet-feeding mechanism across a scan region, and a stationary background component, which has a plurality of sections having different reflectivit... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7382502 | Image processing method and apparatus for recovering reading faults An image processing apparatus for recovering reading faults produced in time of scanning photographic film due to imperfections present on the film such as scratches, dust or stains. The apparatus comprises a defective pixel detecting unit (11) for detecting ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7379217 | Image reading apparatus To set at least the main portion of a read original on an image reading apparatus while avoiding a discontinuous portion, the position of the discontinuous portion of photoelectric conversion element arrays is indicated, or an original holder to be used to set the o... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7369282 | Document reading device A document reading device includes a document transport and, for reading a document image, an optical reader having a movable exposure which stops at a predetermined reading position and emits light onto the document. A guide member guides the document to the readin... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369264 | Host based printer, host device and printing control method A framework is provided which makes it possible to appropriately determine the printing starting timing, and to start printing, without waiting for the compression processing in the host device to be completed. A host based printer receives compressed data of a prin... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366338 | Automated document processing system using full image scanning A document processing system comprises an input receptacle for receiving documents. A transport mechanism receives the documents from the input receptacle and transports the documents past a full image scanner and a discrimination unit. An output receptacle receives... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7365889 | System and method for transparency optimization One embodiment pertains to analyzing a document that is to be printed on a transparency, determining whether the document formatting is optimized for transparency printing, and alerting a user if the document formatting is not optimized for transparency printing. An... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362891 | Automated document processing system using full image scanning A document processing system comprises an input receptacle for receiving documents. A transport mechanism receives the documents from the input receptacle and transports the documents past an image scanner and a discrimination unit. An output receptacle receives the... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362455 | Processing scanned pages Systems and methods of processing scanned pages are described. In one aspect, the invention features a method of processing a sequence of scanned pages of a document in accordance with which, page number indicators are extracted from scanned pages of the document. A... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359940 | Cooperative processing apparatus and cooperative processing method When instruction data is received, a prescribed service is performed on the basis of the received instruction data. A processing result of the service is sent to a service processing apparatus as an instruction data transmission source. If the processing result of t... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7352496 | Image scanning device and shading compensation method thereof An image scanning device and a shading compensation method include reading out a second region of a reference white sheet spaced by a predetermined distance from a white roller prior to reading out a to-be-scanned document to generate a reference shading compensatio... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352495 | Image reading apparatus When an optical image obtained by an optical scanning unit of optically scanning an original sheet automatically fed by an original sheet feeder is read, it is discriminated in units of pixel whether or not dirt or scratch attached to a running reading glass plate i... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352498 | Optical image scanner with adjustable object plane Cam-operated focus shift in an optical image scanner is provided. One embodiment comprises a method of adjusting the location of an object plane above a platen to be scanned by an optical head. Briefly described, one such method comprises rotating a cam-shaped space... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349566 | Image processing network An image processing network for processing image files and coupled to an outside data communication network comprising a plurality of remote image capture units, the units scanning documents and creating a plurality of image files of said documents; the image proces... | 03/25/2008 |
