H04N 2201/04755
By controlling the position or movement of a scanning element or carriage
Official title: by controlling the position or movement of a scanning element or carriage, e.g. of a polygonal mirror, of a drive motor
H04N2201/04755 (By controlling the position or movement of a scanning element or carriage) appears on 450 US grants and 211 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 450
- Published applications
- 211
- Assignees
- 135
- Inventors
- 824
- Latest grant
- 28 Apr 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Optical member, optical scanning device, and image forming device20 Jun 2023US 11,681,239 B2Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Scanner carriage devices to prevent tilting1 Mar 2022US 11,265,438 B2Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P.
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- Reading device and recording device2 Jan 2025US 2025/0008042 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Image reading device and control method for image reading device4 Apr 2024US 2024/0113641 A1Seiko Epson Corporation
- Image reading device and image forming apparatus28 Sep 2023US 2023/0308577 A1FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
- Method and apparatus for capturing an image of an object using a scanning microscope28 Jul 2022US 2022/0236548 A1Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
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