Abstract:
An image processing device includes an image scanning unit, a first paper feed cassette, and an image recording unit. The image scanning unit scans a document placed on a document scanning surface, which defines a maximum document size. The first paper feed cassette accommodates recording paper of a size up to a first size, which is the same as the maximum document size. The image recording unit records an image on the recording paper. The maximum document size is defined by a scan maximum main scanning length and a scan maximum sub-scanning length that is preferably shorter than the scan maximum main scanning length. A record main scanning direction is parallel or substantially parallel to a long side of the recording paper of the first size accommodated in the first paper feed cassette. A scan main scanning direction is parallel or substantially parallel to the record main scanning direction.
Abstract:
An image reading apparatus including: a feeding device; a first reading unit that scans an image of a first surface of the document fed by the feeding device; a second reading unit that scans an image of a second surface of the document fed by the feeding device, wherein the second surface is opposite to the first surface; a first processing unit that processes the image data read by the first reading unit when performing a double-sided reading; a second processing unit that processes the image data read by the second reading unit when performing the double-sided reading, and a control unit that, when a one-sided reading of a following document is performed while one of the processing units is performing a processing of a one-sided reading of a preceding document, controls the other processing unit to perform processing of the one-sided reading of the following document.
Abstract:
An image reader is provided, which includes a feeder feeding a document sheet, a first reading sensor, a first reference member, a moving mechanism moving the first reading sensor to a document reading position to read an image of the document sheet and a reference reading position to read an image of the first reference member, and a controller that controls the moving mechanism to move the first reading sensor to the reference reading position, controls the first reading sensor to read the image of the first reference member, and controls the moving mechanism to move the first reading sensor to the document reading position after the first reading sensor reads the image of the first reference member. The controller controls the feeder to start feeding the document sheet to the document reading position before the first reading sensor reaches the document reading position from the reference reading position.
Abstract:
An image reading device includes a clock generator, an image sensor, a plurality of switches having a first switch and a second switch, a reader, a first controller, and a second controller. The clock generator generates a first clock signal having a first cycle and a second clock signal having a second cycle shorter than the first cycle. The image sensor detects an image formed on a document to generate an image signal. The image signal is inputted into the first switch and the second switch by rotation. The first switch and the second switch is capable of switching to simultaneously or alternately output the image signal in synchronization with the first clock. The reader reads the image signal outputted from the first switch and the second switch. The first controller controls the first switch to output the image signal to the reader during a first period and to control the second switch to output the image signal to the reader during a second period. The second controller controls the clock generator to generate the first clock signal during the first period and the second period and to generate the second clock signal during a third period that is between the first period and the second period and that is longer than a predetermined period mT and shorter than (k×T1) The T1 is the first cycle. The k is a minimum integer that satisfies mT
Abstract:
An electronic device includes a housing, a movable module and an assistance structure. The moveable module is mounted in the housing and moving along a direction back and forth. The assistance structure, including two magnetic elements, are respectively disposed in the housing and on the moveable module for providing a force to the moveable module when the movable module starts to be moved so as to urge the moveable module toward the direction departed from the housing.
Abstract:
The present invention discloses an image reading apparatus which enables high-speed reading of an image transmitted through a transparent material such as a photographic film or an image reflected by a reflective material. In the image reading apparatus, a transparent material such as a photographic film is first conveyed in a conveying direction thereof, and an image frame to be read is positioned at a reading position. After the image frame is positioned, light emitted from a lamp is made into slit light by a light diffusion box, a longitudinal direction of the slit light coinciding with the conveying direction of the photographic film, and the slit light is irradiated on a portion (line) to be read of the photographic film. Light transmitted through the portion of the photographic film is imaged by a lens unit onto a light-receiving surface of a line CCD (a reading sensor) which is disposed along the longitudinal direction of the photographic film. The photographic film is moved by sub-scanning means in a direction substantially perpendicular to the direction the photographic film is conveyed, and the position of a subsequent portion (line) to be read is determined. In this way, an image recorded on the photographic film is read line by line along a longitudinal direction of the image frame.
Abstract:
A light beam modulated with image information has its optical axis moved in a given direction by a light beam moving unit, and reflected successively by a plurality of rotating reflecting mirrors of a spinner to a photosensitive medium. The movement of the light beam which is caused by the light beam moving unit is controlled depending on the speed at which the reflecting mirrors move and the direction in which the reflecting mirrors move, so that the light beam reflected by each of the reflecting mirrors can scan the photosensitive medium. An image represented by the image information can efficiently be recorded on the photosensitive medium.
Abstract:
A method for scanning successive images including the steps of scanning a first image bearing media employing a top to bottom scan direction and scanning a second image bearing media employing a bottom to top scan direction.
Abstract:
A laser beam emitted from a laser beam generator is modulated by a laser beam modulator depending on an image to be recorded, and then converted into a linearly polarized light beam having a predetermined direction of polarization by a polarization switcher. The linearly polarized light beam is then converted into a circularly polarized light beam by a quarter-wave plate. The circularly polarized light beam is converted by a quarter-wave plate of a rotatable unit into a linearly polarized light beam, which is applied to a polarization beam splitter. If the linearly polarized light beam is an s-polarized light beam, then the laser beam is reflected by the polarization beam splitter toward a recording medium. If the linearly polarized light beam is a p-polarized light beam, then the laser beam passes through the polarization beam splitter. The laser beam passes through a quarter-wave plate and is reflected by a convex mirror and then by the polarization beam splitter toward the recording medium. The laser beam is thus applied substantially in its entirety to the recording medium for thereby recording a two-dimensional image efficiently on the recording medium.
Abstract:
An image processing device includes an image scanning unit, a first paper feed cassette, and an image recording unit. The image scanning unit scans a document placed on a document scanning surface, which defines a maximum document size. The first paper feed cassette accommodates recording paper of a size up to a first size, which is the same as the maximum document size. The image recording unit records an image on the recording paper. The maximum document size is defined by a scan maximum main scanning length and a scan maximum sub-scanning length that is preferably shorter than the scan maximum main scanning length. A record main scanning direction is parallel or substantially parallel to a long side of the recording paper of the first size accommodated in the first paper feed cassette. A scan main scanning direction is parallel or substantially parallel to the record main scanning direction.