Abstract:
A scanner frame (20) comprises a vertical track (22) which is slidably attached at one end thereof to a horizontal track (24). The horizontal track is attached to a drawing board (28) or any other suitable flat surface. An optical imaging device (36) (i.e., an optical scanner) is slidably attached to the vertical track. A marker strip (37) comprising a series of bars (38) of uniform pitch are disposed on a surface of the horizontal track along the length thereof. These bars are detected by a sensor assembly (40) disposed on the vertical track. Another marker strip (41) comprising a series of bars (42) of uniform pitch are disposed on a surface of the vertical track along the length thereof. These bars are detected by a sensor assembly (44) disposed on the scanner.
Abstract:
An apparatus for recording an image onto a light recording medium (16) includes a light source (120) which emits light at a position which is movable over a light emitting area (21) of the light source controlled by a controller (13). A light position sensor (142) has a target area optically coupled to light emitted from a plurality of positions within the light emitting area of the light source used for recording for detecting the position of the light intersecting the target area of the sensor from the light emitting area of the light source and generating a signal dependent upon the light intersecting the target area. A controller (13), responsive to the signal, produces a correction parameter and controls the position of the light on the light emitting area of the light source with the correction parameter during recording. The present invention also reduces the effects of recording errors which occur near section boundaries as the sections are recorded onto a recording medium.
Abstract:
A method for orienting a dual mouse optical scanner on an orthogonal grid pattern comprising the steps of (a) placing a dual mouse scanner on a grid pattern at a small angle to the vertical lines of the grid pattern and commencing motion detection with the two mice, (b) setting the coordinate position of each mouse at (0,0), (c) rotating the scanner in a predetermined manner while measuring the vertical distance on the grid pattern between the two mice for each new position of the scanner, (d) determining an average scanner position amongst all scanner positions having the same maximum vertical grid distance between the mice, and (e) establishing the coordinate position of one mouse at the average scanner position as the origin of a coordinate system in the memory of a computer in communication with the scanner and the vertical line closest to the origin and the coordinate position of the other mouse as the vertical axis of the coordinate system.
Abstract:
A method for using a scanner to scan pixel data from an image on a page and map the scanned pixel data in a computer's memory is disclosed comprising the steps of (a) placing a scanner having an elongated detector array of detector elements and two optical mice located in relation to the ends of the array on a transparent grid pattern covering an image on a page to be scanned, (b) determining the orientation of the scanner with respect to the grid pattern using motion detection information provided by the two mice, (c) positioning the scanner at a starting point from which to start detecting the position of the mice and commencing scanning of the page by moving the scanner across the surface of the grid pattern, and (d) storing pixel data scanned by each detector element at a memory address of a computer in communication with the scanner which corresponds to a coordinate position on the grid pattern determined to be nearest the actual position of a particular detector element.
Abstract:
A multiple camera automatic digitizer includes a plurality of spaced video cameras (19) mounted within a housing (3) under a transparent digitizing surface (51). Multiplexing circuitry (37) multiplexes video signals from a selected video camera into a video amplifier (51), the output of which is converted to a digital number representing the darkness of the point of the document most recently scanned by a presently selected one of the video cameras. In accordance with the invention, the automatic digitizer includes a microprocessor (111), system controls that allows selection of various ones of the video cameras to achieve digitizing of corresponding areas of a large document, and computes skew correction factors for each camera as the basis of digitizing of a plurality of permanent alignment marks (P) on a bottom surface of a cover (11) for the digitizing surface. The skew correction factors are used to skew correct the camera data produced by the corresponding camera. The skew corrected lateral offset of each camera is computed by the microprocessor on the basis of the digitized coordinates of the alignment points and is used to automatically compute skew corrected, offset corrected document coordinates for all of the video cameras.
Abstract:
An exposure device includes a first light emitting element substrate including a plurality of first light emitting elements arranged at an arrangement interval T in a longitudinal direction, and a second light emitting element substrate including a part in the longitudinal direction that overlaps with a part of the first light receiving element substrate so as to form an overlapping region. The first and second light emitting element substrates are shifted from each other in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. The second light emitting element substrate includes a plurality of second light emitting elements arranged in the longitudinal direction. The second light emitting elements are arranged at the arrangement interval T at least outside the overlapping region. When an interval between two of the second light emitting elements of the second light emitting element substrate disposed in the overlapping region is expressed as a specified interval TS, the specified interval TS and the arrangement interval T satisfy: T≤TS≤2T.
Abstract:
An image processing apparatus for correcting a dislocation of image, pixels being arranged in a first and second directions perpendicular to each other, including: a section which breaks down a correction amount of the image of each pixel in the second direction into a first shift amount with a unit of a prescribed block, a second shift amount with a unit of the pixel, and a third shift amount less than the pixel size; a minimal shift section which shifts the image data by the third shift amount; a pixel unit shift section which shifts the image data by the second shift amount; and a block unit shift section which shifts the image data by the first shift amount, during compression and storage processing of the image data in the block unit, and executing arrangement of the image data after reading-out and expanding the compressed image data.