Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Imaging device, medium type determining device, and image forming apparatus
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Application No.: US14851383Application Date: 2015-09-11
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Publication No.: US09654671B2Publication Date: 2017-05-16
- Inventor: Mamoru Yorimoto , Nobuyuki Satoh , Kenji Morita , Masaya Kawarada , Masahiro Hiranuma , Daisaku Horikawa
- Applicant: Mamoru Yorimoto , Nobuyuki Satoh , Kenji Morita , Masaya Kawarada , Masahiro Hiranuma , Daisaku Horikawa
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
- Current Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2014-187746 20140916
- Main IPC: H04N1/00
- IPC: H04N1/00 ; H04N1/60 ; H04N1/04 ; H04N1/028 ; G01J3/50

Abstract:
An imaging device including a light source; a two-dimensional image sensor that receives reflected light from a subject containing specular light of the light source and outputs an image of the subject; a light transmission member disposed in an optical path of light emitted from the light source to the subject; and a light shielding unit that, when a position on the subject at which light from the light source is regularly reflected and enters the two-dimensional image sensor is defined as a first specular position, whereas a position on the light transmission member at which light from the light source is regularly reflected and enters the two-dimensional image sensor is defined as a second specular position, shields the light directed from the light source toward the second specular position without shielding the light directed from the light source toward the first specular position.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160080611A1 IMAGING DEVICE, MEDIUM TYPE DETERMINING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2016-03-17
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