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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185035 | Image forming system An image forming system which realizes reliable output of an original of a finished book, while maintaining security. A sheet-unique information-reading unit reads sheet-unique information unique to a sheet used for making a finished book based on image data. A memo... | 05/22/2012 |
| 7440712 | Original cover closer and office equipment including original cover closer An original cover closer has first and second parts for supporting the cover on a main body of office equipment. The first part supports a heavier side of the cover and a second part supports the lighter side of the cover. Both parts have a mounting member with a bo... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440148 | System for manipulating pages of a material The present invention relates to turning and recording and/or reproducing multiple pages or leaves from a material, such as a book or periodical. A leaf lifting mechanism lifts the leaves of the material (e.g., book, periodical, etc.) from which the images are to be... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7268923 | Document scanner for scanning books A document scanner for scanning an open book includes a housing and a wedge-shaped transparent platen supported by the housing. The platen defines an upper surface configured to support a book in a face-down position, and a lower surface opposite the upper surface. ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7224496 | Positioning device for scanned object of scanner The invention relative to a positioning device for the scanned object of a scanner may make a positioning function to a document or a book to be scanned. Through designing a positioning element on the shell body of a scanner, a book of many pages may be positioned o... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7031001 | Print control apparatus and control method A print control apparatus and a print control method perform optimum page layout processing in accordance with properties of output apparatus capable of book bind printing. The order of sheets and the order of sides are obtained as book bind print setting informatio... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6928258 | Scanner with deployable support In accordance with one specific, exemplary embodiment of the invention, there is provided a scanner housing comprising a back wall and opposed side walls; a transparent platen mounted on the housing for receiving an object to be scanned; and a support carried by the... | 08/09/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6611362 | Automatic book page turner for imaging As the individual pages of a book having a gutter and outside edge margins and being held at least partially open are being automatically sequentially turned over, in coordination therewith a flattening force is applied to the unimaged gutter margin areas... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6603580 | Scanner having a variable object plane An input scanner for scanning three-dimensional objects, such as books, on a platen. The input scanner includes a light source for illuminating a three-dimensional object, an elongated sensor array for producing a digital representation of the image on th... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6587227 | Copier having contoured track guides An input scanner for scanning three-dimensional objects, such as books, on a platen. An elongated raster scanner produces a digital representation of a line image in an object plane that is a fixed distance in front of the raster scanner's input optics. W... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6574014 | Automatic book page turner for imaging The pages of a book being held at least partially open may be sequentially automatically turned over from one side of the book to the other by pivoting an elongated arm from one side of the book toward the other and turning over individual pages with a va... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6522862 | Compact image forming apparatus with vertical arrangement An image forming apparatus has a sheet support for accommodating an image-forming sheet; an image forming unit for forming an image on a sheet; a document reading section having a document placing table for reading image information of the document; an AD... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6345763 | Image reading apparatus for reading a bookform document placed on a document table in face-up state An image reading apparatus which reads out a document, such as as a book, placed face-up and opened on a document table. The apparatus includes an image reading device for reading out the document image placed on the document table, a mirror for imaging t... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6330050 | Image processing device for providing correction of a curvature distortion of a bound portion of a spread book An image processing device for processing an image read by an image scanner or similar image reading device is disclosed. The image processing device is capable of accurately detecting, without resorting to a range finding sensor or similar special sensin... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6058281 | Scan module for a document copying machine A scan module for a document copying machine which is provided with its own document scanner. The scan module is provided with a housing suitable for releasable fixing to the document copying machine, the housing being provided with a light exit opening o... | 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 |
| 6014470 | Image reading apparatus having a function for rectifying an image distortion caused by a curvature of a document surface and a method for executing the same An image reading apparatus having a function for rectifying an image distortion caused by a curvature of a document surface, wherein the image distortion is rectified by duplicating image data that is a line of pixels in accordance with a varied amount of... | 01/11/2000 |
| 5969829 | Image reader that stores sets of luminance correction data corresponding to document a surface height An image reader capable of outputting excellent quality read images, without illumination irregularities, similar to that of flat documents even when the document surface is curved as in the case of book-like documents. An image reader provided with a mem... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5847845 | Book document reading device An image reading device capable of preventing, by increasing the quantity of light at the center or bound portion of a spread book document, the quantity of light from becoming short and preventing density from becoming irregular due to the deviation of a... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5847846 | Apparatus and method for scanning a bound color document using a wedge shaped platen A color scanner with a wedge shaped platen sequentially records opposing pages of a bound document positioned thereon using a single imaging station. The scanner includes a partially reflective mirror positioned between the wedge shaped platen. The two si... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5841547 | Digital image forming apparatus providing plural bookbinding modes A copier capable of forming printed matter in a mode where the center of spread page is bound, in which a bookbinding mode whereby record paper having a size twice as much as a designated size is folded in two to thereby constitute a cover (first page) an... | 11/24/1998 |
| 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 |
| 5801849 | Image reading device and document scanning system The document scanner of the present invention includes a reading assembly of simple, compact and light-weight construction. The reading assembly includes an optical system having a relatively short focal length. The reading assembly is thus simply configu... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5798841 | Book page document image reading apparatus having a page turning mechanism A book page document image reading apparatus includes a page turning mechanism, a reading mechanism for reading an image of a spread book page document placed thereon with a binding section being aligned to a reference position, an image size changing mec... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5790262 | Image processing device capable of reproducing a book document In a device for processing a signal representative of a document image from a document reading unit to thereby reproduce the document image, a first comparator binarizes a multilevel image signal from the document reading unit with a first threshold value... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5764383 | Platenless book scanner with line buffering to compensate for image skew A platenless book scanner with line buffering performs electronic perspective correction to account for rotation of the spine of a non-planar bound document relative to a reference line in a support plane of the platenless book scanner. A pre-scan of the ... | 06/09/1998 |
| 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 |
| 5689348 | Book document reading device An image reading device capable of preventing, by increasing the quantity of light at the center or bound portion of a spread book document, the quantity of light from becoming short and preventing density from becoming irregular due to the deviation of a... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5682227 | Royalty accounting system for a book copier An image reader capable of determining whether or not a book document to be copied needs royalty by the recognition of a book document and counting operation of a copying system. When a book document to be copied needs royalty, the number of times that im... | 10/28/1997 |
| 5677776 | Image reader for processing an image of a document An image reader reads images from above a document platen upon which is placed a document such as a book or the like while using fingers or hands to press both edges of said document so as to prevent the pages of the document from rising upwardly, wherein... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5583607 | Image forming apparatus having book reading and page turning capabilities In an image forming apparatus capable of reading a book document while turning over pages of the book, image data representative of two spread pages of a book document are stored in a frame memory. Among the image data, image data matching the front of a ... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5572284 | Book document handling device A book document handing device for an image forming apparatus, and having a function of reading a book document and a function of turning the pages of the document. A scanning unit having the two functions is moved in a reciprocating motion on and along t... | 11/05/1996 |
| 5555077 | Printer having an active user interface feature A printer including a controller for controlling reproduction functions of the machine, and a user active interface. The active interface includes user actuatable control for selecting one of at least two modes of the printer for performing a desired repr... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5526098 | Copier Machine book support structure A book support structure for a copier machine includes a top wall constructed and arranged for receiving and supporting a sheet of glass. A first sloping side wall has an edge integrally formed with a first edge of the top wall and extends downwardly and ... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5179454 | Image reading apparatus An image reading apparatus includes a carrying unit for carrying a sheet original and a book original to a reading position, an original urging member including a reference member, closed when a sheet original is carried by the carrying unit and opened wh... | 01/12/1993 |
| 5084732 | Book copying machine A book copying machine comprises a housing covered with a movable exposure glass at the top and having set therein a microprocessor, a copying camera system, a carbon powder feeding and image setting device, a paper turn-over device and a return delivery ... | 01/28/1992 |
| 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 |
| 5012275 | Right-to-left scanning system for copying documents or bound books An imaging system which uses a right-to-left scanning operation is enabled by first detecting by an optical sensor the right hand edge of a document to be copied, the left edge of the document being registered at the left edge of the platen. The scanning ... | 04/30/1991 |
