Abstract:
An image reading apparatus includes: a light source that generates light by synthesizing light from different illuminants, and irradiates an irradiated object with the light; a reading unit that reads light irradiated by the light source and reflected by the irradiated object and generates image information on the irradiated object; a correction amount setting unit that acquires from the reading unit the image information generated by using, as the irradiated object, a color sample formed in a color of light emitted by any one of the illuminants generating the light of the light source, and that sets, according to the acquired image information, a correction amount to correct the image information on the irradiated object generated by the reading unit; and a correction unit that corrects the image information on the irradiated object generated by the reading unit, by using the correction amount set by the correction amount setting unit.
Abstract:
An image reading device includes: a light source irradiating a reading target with light; an image sensor receiving incoming reflection light from the reading target and reading the reading target; a plurality of kinds of white reference plates of mutually different brightness levels provided for acquiring a white reference in shading correction; an input part accepting input of selection, as a mode for document reading, between a character mode prioritizing character reproduction and a photo mode prioritizing figure and photo reproduction; and a shading correction part, when the character mode has been selected, perform the shading correction by defining the white reference based on output of the image sensor when the character-mode white reference plate darker than the photo-mode white reference plate has been read.
Abstract:
A method of scanning a target image and inhibiting backtrack artifacts from the scanned image comprises the steps of initiating a scan on a flat bed scanner, the flat bed scanner comprising at least a scanbar, a memory buffer and a motion control pattern comprised of a plurality of spaced elements, each element having an angled portion with respect to the motion of the scanbar; acquiring scan data comprising a motion control pattern data and an image data with said scanbar; storing the previously acquired scan data in a memory buffer; querying whether the memory buffer reaches a preselected full threshold; acquiring a last valid scan data; stopping and backtracking the scanbar when the memory buffer preselected full threshold is met; and, inhibiting backtrack artifacts by one of a first real-time position analysis or a post-processing analysis.
Abstract:
An image reading method according to the present invention involves causing an image sensor for reading an image of a document to move from a side at which the document is placed toward a home position of the image sensor, causing to reverse a movement direction at a turn-back position after the image sensor has passed the home position, and causing the image sensor to move to the home position again.
Abstract:
There is provided an image reading device, which comprises a photoreceptor unit having photoreceptors aligned in a line, and a signal output unit having output channels from which output signals of the photoreceptors are outputted. The output channels respectively correspond to regions into which the photoreceptors are divided. The image reading device further comprises an amplifier unit to amplify the output signals from the output channels, and a gain adjustment unit configured to use a maximum level of white signals outputted by the signal output unit as the output signals when the photoreceptor unit receives light from a white object to adjust a gain of amplification of the amplifier unit with respect to the output signals belonging to at least one of the regions other than a first region to which an output signal corresponding to the maximum level belongs.
Abstract:
An image reading apparatus for reading an image with respect to a plurality of colors, including: a reference member; an image reading device including a plurality of light receiving elements, the image reading device reading the reference member to obtain white level information for the respective colors, the white level information for each of the colors being a set of data of a quantity obtained by the light receiving elements, the read image being corrected based on at least the white level information; a ratio calculator calculating a ratio among the information of the respective colors; an abnormal-data determiner determining that a first piece of data in the level information of any particular color is abnormal data, where the first piece of data is different from a second specific piece of data in the level information of the same color which second specific piece of data is in a predetermined relationship with the first specific data, by an amount not smaller than a threshold, or where the first specific data is outside a range; and a data corrector obtaining correction data obtained by multiplying, by the ratio, corresponding data which corresponds to the abnormal data according to a predefined principle and included in the information of at least one color determined to be not including the abnormal data, and replaces the abnormal data with the correction data.
Abstract:
An image scanner includes a transparent plate, a scanning device, a driving device, a positioning member, a light absorbing portion and a white reference portion. The transparent plate has an original placing surface. The scanning device irradiates an original with light by means of a light source and scans reflected light from the original. The driving device reciprocates the scanning device along the transparent plate. The positioning member positions the original placed on the original placing surface of the transparent plate. The light absorbing portion, which is disposed on the original placing surface side of the positioning member and at substantially a central portion of the positioning member in moving directions of the scanning device, absorbs ambient light entering to the original placing surface side of the positioning member through the transparent plate. The white reference portion is provided to the original placing surface side of the positioning member.
Abstract:
A scanning device includes a housing, an optical module and a positioning element. The optical module is movably disposed in the housing. The positioning element disposed on the housing is movable in a direction substantially parallel to a moving path of the optical module so as to adjust the range of a scanning area. When a to-be-scanned document is scanned, the optical module moves inside the scanning area for performing scanning.
Abstract:
A white reference member is used to obtain white reference data. An image sensor scans the white reference member line by line to obtain a plurality of lines of white reference data. A skipping unit skips the white reference data with a predetermined skipping ratio to generate a skipped white reference data. A dust detecting unit detects a dust between the white reference member and the image sensor based on the skipped white reference data.
Abstract:
The present scanning device and related method relate to reversibly positioning markers in respective overlapping areas, where the markers are arranged in the scanning device. A control device makes x-y-position correction of a camera on the basis of a known position and a known outline of the markers. The markers are deviated and displaced from a neutral position outside scanning areas of the camera into the overlapping areas.