Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain an optical scanner capable of reducing pitch unevenness caused by surface falling of a rotary polygon mirror and thereby easily obtaining a high definition image, and to provide an image forming device using the same. SOLUTION: In the optical scanner provided with a deflection means 5 consisting of the rotary polygon mirror for deflecting a luminous flux emitted from a light source means 1, and a scanning optical system 61 for optically guiding the luminous flux deflected by the deflection means onto a surface to be scanned, when assuming the diameter of the circumscribed circle of the rotary polygon mirror to be D(mm), the number of the deflection surfaces of the rotary polygon mirror to be M, the impinging angle to a deflection surface to be α(rad) when the traversal center is being scanned with the luminous flux, the maximum swing angle to be θ(rad) when the deflection surface scans an effective scanning range, and a magnification in the vertical scanning cross section of the scanning optical system to be β, each element is set so as to satisfy the conditional expression (1). COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PURPOSE: To adjust the parallel degree of plural reading sensors precisely by aligning a marker in the main scanning direction in each side of both sides of a main scanning range outside the main scanning range for a reading original on an original board. CONSTITUTION: An original is put on an original position 2 of the original board 1 upside-down and the markers 8, 8' are fitted to both sides of the main scanning range outside the main scanning range for the original. The markers 8, 8' are constituted by black band-like printing parts and positioned so as to be aligned on the line A-A' of the main scanning direction and the interval X between both markers is fixed. The light projected from a light source 4 irradiates the original and the markers the reflected light is detected by the reading sensors CCD 7, 7' through reflectors 5a∼5c and lenses 6, 6' to convert the light into an electric signal. A scanning unit 3 is aligned to the line A-A' so as to detect the edge parts of the markers 8, 8' and adjusts the main scanning direction of the fitting positions of CCDs and the distance. COPYRIGHT: (C)1984,JPO&Japio
Abstract:
An image reading apparatus includes an image sensor to read a document, a sensor to detect whether the document is loaded on the image reading apparatus, and a processor to, when the sensor detects the document is loaded on the image reading apparatus, and before a scan instruction is input to the image reading apparatus, control the image sensor to execute a pre-scan job with respect to the loaded document using a default set value.
Abstract:
An image reading apparatus, an image reading method and a program are provided for favorably correcting color misalignment in a sub-scanning direction of a read signal read by a plurality of line sensors without increasing a circuit scale or processing time. To accomplish this, the image reading apparatus sets, as a reference signal, the read signal that is output from one of the plurality of line sensors, and detects a correlation between the reference signal and each of a plurality of read signals output from line sensors other than the one of the plurality of line sensors of a plurality of lines that are displaced in predetermined line units from a line from which the reference signal is read, and selects a read signal having a high correlation with the reference signal as a read signal from the line of the reference signal.
Abstract:
An apparatus for moving a unit to execute scanning includes a scanning unit including a motor, an encoder for outputting a signal according to movement of the unit, a detection unit for detecting a current supplied to the motor, a speed control unit for executing a speed control of the motor according to the signal output from the encoder and the current detected by the detection unit, a movement control unit for setting a threshold value, moving the unit by driving the motor, by using the speed control unit, and a current control unit for setting a value greater than the predetermined value according to the threshold value and value of the current detected by the detection unit at a predetermined timing during a time period while the unit is moving.
Abstract:
Provided is a detecting apparatus including an illumination optical system for emitting an image bearing member with a light beam emitted from a light source unit, an imaging optical system including an imaging optical element for imaging an image on the surface of the image bearing member, a light receiving unit for detecting the image on the image bearing member which has been imaged by the imaging optical system, and a calculation unit for detecting image information on the image on the image bearing member from a detection signal received from the light receiving unit. In the detecting apparatus, at least one optical plane of the imaging optical element is configured to refract an imaging system principal ray after passing therethrough in a direction of farther becoming apart from the light source unit than the imaging system principal ray before passing through the optical plane.
Abstract:
An image reading apparatus that optically reads a document includes: multiple line sensors provided approximately parallel to each other and each having light-receiving elements arranged in line form, each line sensor capturing respective line-shaped regions spanning in the main scanning direction of the document in respective color components; a movement unit that causes the positional relationship between the document and the multiple line sensors to move relative to the sub scanning direction that is orthogonal to the main scanning direction; a color skew adjustment unit that adjusts positional skew in the sub scanning direction in scan data of each of the color components captured by the multiple line sensors in synchronization with the movement caused by the movement unit, in accordance with an offset amount based on the distance between each of the multiple line sensors.
Abstract:
An overhead scanner device includes an area sensor, a linear sensor, and a control unit, wherein the control unit includes an area-image acquiring unit that controls the area sensor to successively acquire a plurality of images, a feature-point extracting unit that extracts feature points from the images acquired by the area-image acquiring unit, a velocity-vector computing unit that computes a velocity vector of each of the feature points by comparing the feature points extracted by the feature-point extracting unit between the images, and a read-start determining unit that determines a read start by the linear sensor, based on the velocity vector computed by the velocity-vector computing unit.
Abstract:
An image reader includes a light source that irradiates light to a recording material on which an image is formed, a generation section that receives light reflected from the recording material and generates image information from the received light, and a processing section that extracts information corresponding to a window region of the recording material set in advance, as correction information, from the image information generated by the generation section when light from the light source is irradiated to the recording material on which the image is formed.
Abstract:
A light scanning device is provided. The light scanning device includes: an oscillating mirror which oscillates rotationally and reflects a light beam to be scanned over a scanning range, the scanning range including a first scanning range and a second scanning range set across a center of the scanning range; a detection unit including a light receiving face, on which the light beam is incident, to detect the light beam; and first and second stationary mirrors which reflect the light beam reflected by the oscillating mirror to the first scanning range and the second scanning range, respectively, to be incident on the light receiving face, wherein an incident pattern of the light beam reflected by the first stationary mirror incident on the light receiving face is different from an incident pattern of the light beam reflected by the second stationary mirror incident on the light receiving face.