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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7420693 | Paper cartridge for printer A paper cartridge of a printer including a cartridge body to load papers to be picked up, and a friction plate to provide a predetermined friction force to a front end of the papers picked up at the cartridge body. The friction plate is sloped at a predetermined ang... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7277190 | Measurement system with an optical measurement arrangement The invention concerns an optical measurement arrangement, in particular for the examination of layer systems, and can include an illumination device having at least one illumination source for delivering a measurement light beam and coupling the measurement light b... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7133573 | Document skew accommodation A method to be used within a document image capture device, such as a document scanner (10) of detecting and measuring the document skew (25) while the document is still entering the imaging area and then effecting a rotation of the camera to accommoda... | 11/07/2006 |
| 6995878 | Image reading apparatus The object of this invention is to read an image (scan flow), when an original is being moved, above a scan flow glass member, so as to prevent degradation in image caused by dust or a scar on a scan flow glass. In order to achieve this object, the original which is... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6891643 | Imaging device and imaging method The imaging device divides the two-dimensional photo object into multiple sections before performing imaging, and obtains an ultra-high resolution complete image by splicing together the partial images of the photo object. To this end, in the imaging device, the are... | 05/10/2005 |
| 5463451 | Document reproduction system including a duplex document handler with natural inversion The invention is directed to a document reproduction system which includes an improved apparatus for imaging both sides of a duplex document while also providing for simplex side only imaging. A document feeder, operating in a constant velocity transport ... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5335007 | Beam scanning device for an electronic photography type printer A scanning device for an electronic photography printer which comprises a photosensitive drum, a rotary cylinder horizontally disposed and provided with spiral slits which are spaced from one another, an LED array horizontally penetrating the inside of th... | 08/02/1994 |
| 5282921 | Apparatus and method for optimally scanning a two-dimensional surface of one or more objects A method for optimally scanning, for example, a surface of one or more silicon-on-insulator (SOI) semiconductor wafers 10 consists of a spiral type scan technique. The spiral type scan can maintain a path pattern 30 that encompasses the surface diameter o... | 02/01/1994 |
| 4992890 | System for plotting and scanning graphic images A system for scanning or plotting a graphic image. The system deflects (10) a portion of the beam of light (18) by an amount dependent upon the value of a characteristic of a signal (12). A plurality of signals is generated (12), each having a different v... | 02/12/1991 |
| 4821110 | Method of and apparatus for correcting a read position error in subscanning direction of a line image sensor Amounts of read position errors in subscanning direction with respect to respective scanning positions of line image sensors, which are provided in parallel with main scanning direction, are found in advance by a number of scanning lines. In actual scanni... | 04/11/1989 |
| 4494821 | Laser printing system with developable helicoid reflector Line scanning apparatus are especially compensated to limit beam divergence in one direction by embodying a specularly reflective developable helicoid. Beam divergence in the direction orthogonal to the aforementioned one direction is masked by a narrow s... | 01/22/1985 |
| 4040095 | Apparatus and method for facsimile scanning A selector disc defining a single revolution spiral aperture is concentrically rotated with a scanning disc defining four nested multiturn spiral apertures. An elongated fixed slit is positioned between the discs and as the discs rotate, an exposure apert... | 08/02/1977 |
