Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Document reading apparatus, image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and copying machine
- Patent Title (中): 文件读取装置,图像处理装置,图像形成装置和复印机
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Application No.: US11357188Application Date: 2006-02-21
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Publication No.: US07715066B2Publication Date: 2010-05-11
- Inventor: Norio Michiie
- Applicant: Norio Michiie
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2005/073934 20050315
- Main IPC: H04N1/04
- IPC: H04N1/04

Abstract:
An opening detector detects a state of a platen whether the platen is “opened” at a level equal to or above a set opening degree or “closed” at a level less than the set opening degree. A reading controller starts lighting of an illumination lamp in response to a change of the state of the platen from the “opened” to the “closed”. A rising detector detects a rising of light intensity of the illumination lamp. A size detector reads an image signal of an imaging element after the rising detector detects a rising of the light intensity, determines presence of a document in a main scanning direction, and decides a document size in the main scanning direction.
Public/Granted literature
- US20060208157A1 Document reading apparatus, image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and copying machine Public/Granted day:2006-09-21
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