# US 10,375,263 B2 · Reading apparatus and control method for reading apparatus > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,375,263 B2 - Document ID: US10375263B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 15/922,224 - Filed: 2018-03-15 - Published: 2018-09-27 - Granted: 2019-08-06 - Earliest claimed: 2017-03-23 - Assignees: Seiko Epson Corporation - Applicants: Seiko Epson Corporation - Inventors: Masaaki Takizawa - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10375263B2 ## CPC - H04N 1/00798: {Circuits or arrangements for the control thereof, e.g. using a programmed control device or according to a measured quantity} - G06V 30/32: Digital ink - H04N 1/0057: {Conveying sheets before or after scanning (arrangements for conveying sheets as part of the scanning operation H04N1/04 and subgroups)} - H04N 1/04: Scanning arrangements {, i.e. arrangements for the displacement of active reading or reproducing elements relative to the original or reproducing medium, or vice versa}(H04N1/387 takes precedence) - H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - G06V: IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING ## Abstract A reading apparatus includes a first line sensor and a second line sensor, and a plurality of signal processing circuits including a first signal processing circuit, the plurality of signal processing circuits configured to receive signals from a corresponding line sensor. The first line sensor corresponds to the first signal processing circuit, and the first line sensor and the second line sensor are arranged in such a way as to be separate from each other in a transport direction and overlap with each other in an intersecting direction. A space is adjacent to the second line sensor in the intersecting direction, and the first signal processing circuit is arranged in the space. The first signal processing circuit is arranged to be adjacent to the first line sensor in the transport direction. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A reading apparatus comprising: a transport section configured to transport a medium in a transport direction, a plurality of line sensors including a first line sensor and a second line sensor, each of the plurality of line sensors including sensor elements arranged in an intersecting direction intersecting with the transport direction and configured to read the medium; and a plurality of signal processing circuits including a first signal processing circuit, each of the plurality of signal processing circuits respectively configured to receive one or more signals from a corresponding line sensor of the plurality of line sensors; wherein the first line sensor corresponds to the first signal processing circuit, and the first line sensor and the second line sensor are arranged in such a way as to be separate from each other in the transport direction and overlap with each other in the intersecting direction, wherein a space is adjacent to the second line sensor in the intersecting direction, and the first signal processing circuit is arranged in the space; and the first signal processing circuit is arranged to be adjacent to the first line sensor in the transport direction. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The reading apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the space in which the first of signal processing circuit is arranged is a space in which the first line sensor and the second sensor do not overlap with each other in the intersecting direction. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The reading apparatus according to claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of line sensors is configured to output an analog signal in response to reading of the medium to a respective corresponding signal processing circuit of the plurality of signal processing circuits, and the plurality of signal processing circuits are configured to process the respective analog signals received from the corresponding line sensors. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The reading apparatus according to claim 3, wherein each of the plurality of signal processing circuits includes an analog-to-digital (A/D) conversion circuit configured to convert the respective analog signals received from the plurality of line sensors into digital signals. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The reading apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of signal processing circuits including the first signal processing circuit are arranged in respective spaces of a plurality of spaces including the space adjacent to the second line sensor in the intersecting direction, and wherein a first subset of the plurality of signal processing circuits are each arranged upstream, in the transport direction, of the signal processing circuits of a second subset of the plurality of signal processing circuits, the first subset including a first total number of signal processing circuits larger than a second total number of signal processing circuits of the second subset. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The reading apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of combinations of one or more line sensors of the plurality of line sensors and corresponding one or more signal processing circuits of the plurality of signal processing circuits are respectively disposed in corresponding areas of a plurality of areas extending from an upstream side in the transport direction toward a downstream side in the transport direction, and a total number of the one or more signal processing circuits arranged at the upstream side in the transport direction is larger than a total number of the one or more line sensors arranged at the upstream side area in the transport direction. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The reading apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a control substrate which is electrically connected to each of the signal processing circuits via a corresponding one of the plurality of signal lines and is configured to receive signals output by the plurality of signal processing circuits, wherein a connection portion disposed between the signal lines and the control substrate is arranged further downstream in the transport direction than is at least one of the signal processing circuits of the plurality of signal processing circuits arranged downstream in the transport direction of a corresponding line sensor of the plurality of line sensors.