Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for illuminating printing plates (5) in which the light from a light source (2) is imaged on a two-dimensional light modulator (4) having a plurality of rows of light-modulated cells (8), and said light is modulated thereby, whereupon the light modulator (4) is imaged on light-sensitive material (5) via an imaging beam path (11), wherein the light-sensitive material (5) is moved relative to the light modulator (4) substantially perpendicularly to the direction of the rows of light-modulated cells (8) at a relative speed and wherein the data pattern to be imaged on the light-sensitive material (5) is displayed beginning in the first row of the light modulator (4) in each row consecutively during a respective exposure time (T, T') and then moved to the subsequent row of the light modulator (4). In order to improve said method, the invention proposes that the image (10) of the data pattern be held substantially stationary relative to the light-sensitive material (5) during the exposure time (T, T').
Abstract:
An additional motion is introduced into a scanning operation in addition to the motion inherent in the operation. In a flatbed scanner a linear sensor array is fixedly positioned across the document in an "x" direction and is moved across the document in a perpendicular or "y" direction. In a drum scanner a light beam moves across the document in the "x" direction and the document is moved in the "y" direction. Light reflected from the document is directed to a fixed photoreceptor. With the present invention, the sensor array (14), or the photoreceptor, is moved or vibrated in the "x" direction by a simple piezo electric transducer (15) or by a simple mechanical cam. To eliminate Moire patterns the vibratory movement is a pseudo random series of movements. To introduce a special pattern into the document or to otherwise create special effects, various other types of motion can be used.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method and a device (1) for archiving master images. The master image is scanned and the acquired picture element values digitalized, whereby the resolution of the master image is acquired or determined in advance and the master image is then scanned with at last double its own resolution.
Abstract:
A document scanner with automatic dust avoidance includes an automated document feeder; a transparent plate; an illumination source for illuminating the document through the transparent plate; at least one mirror for reflecting light reflected from the document; at least one sensor for imaging light from the at least one mirror; a microprocessor for determining the presence of dust on the transparent plate; and a motor for tilting the at least one mirror when dust is detected on the transparent plate.
Abstract:
An image processing apparatus is provided with an area sensor which is formed by arranging sensor components for a pixel in a two-dimensional array and is attached in an inclined manner with respect to a reference installation position. The apparatus has a sensor unit which reads, from the sensor components which are determined based on an inclination angle indicating an inclination of the area sensor from the reference installation position and have been arranged within the area sensor, image data in which the inclination has been corrected; an image obtaining unit which obtains a plurality of frames of image data having a shift of less than one pixel, by scanning an original document image once by the sensor unit; and a high resolution conversion unit which obtains image data with a resolution higher than resolutions of the sensor components by using the obtained image data to perform interpolation processing.
Abstract:
Um ein Verfahren zur Belichtung von Druckplatten (5), bei dem Licht aus einer Lichtquelle (2) auf einem zweidimensionalen Lichtmodulator (4) mit einer Vielzahl von Reihen aus lichtmodulierenden Zellen (8) abgebildet wird und von diesem moduliert wird, wonach der Lichtmodulator (4) über einen Abbildungsstrahlengang (11) auf lichtempfindliches Material (5) abgebildet wird, wobei das lichtempfindliche Material (5) im wesentlichen senkrecht zu der Richtung der Reihen aus lichtmodulierenden Zellen (8) relativ zum Lichtmodulator (4) mit einer Relativgeschwindigkeit bewegt wird und wobei die auf dem lichtempfindlichen Material (5) abzubildenden Datenmuster beginnend in der ersten Reihe des Lichtmodulators (4) nacheinander in jeder Reihe jeweils während einer Haltezeit (T, T') angezeigt und anschließend zu der jeweils folgenden Reihe des Lichtmodulators (4) verschoben werden, wird vorgeschlagen, dass die Abbildung (10) des Datenmusters während der Haltezeit (T, T') relativ zu dem lichtempfindlichen Material (5) im wesentlichen stationär gehalten wird.
Abstract:
A storage phosphor reader apparatus reads exposed storage phosphors. The reader includes an outer frame assembly including a cassette handling assembly, located on the upper part of the outer frame assembly, for handling vertically oriented cassettes; an inner frame assembly; a first set of vibration isolators for mounting the inner frame assembly on the outer frame assembly, so as to minimize vibrations caused in the outer frame assembly from being transmitted to the inner frame assembly; a storage phosphor scanning assembly; and a second set of vibration isolators for mounting the scanning assembly on the inner frame assembly, so as to minimize vibrations caused in the inner frame assembly frame from being transmitted to the scanning assembly.