Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image reading device, image reading method, non-transitory recording medium storing computer readable program, and image formation device
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Application No.: US17318518Application Date: 2021-05-12
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Publication No.: US11745497B2Publication Date: 2023-09-05
- Inventor: Yasuyuki Kamai
- Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
- Current Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Cantor Colburn LLP
- Priority: JP 20085653 2020.05.15
- Main IPC: H04N1/00
- IPC: H04N1/00 ; B41J2/045 ; B41J2/165 ; B41J11/00 ; H04N1/409

Abstract:
It is intended to allow whether or not a noise included in a read image is a noise due to an ink ejection failure to be more reliably determined. An image reading device includes an image reading unit that reads an image formation surface of paper by using a reducing optical system and a control unit. The image reading unit includes a plurality of read sensors disposed at positions displaced from each other in a main scanning direction. The plurality of read sensors are disposed to be able to read the image formation surface by using at least a local region of the image formation surface as a common region to be read. The control unit determines, based on a first image obtained by a first read sensor included in the plurality of read sensors and on a second image obtained by a second read sensor included in the plurality of read sensors, an amount of displacement of a noise resulting from a parallax between the first read sensor and the second read sensor and determines, based on the amount of displacement, whether or not the noise is present on the image formation surface.
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