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US 11,115,557 B2Granted
Reading device
AssigneePanasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
InventorTomoko Iiyama
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Abstract
A reading device includes a housing, an imaging unit, a reading lighting unit, a guiding unit, and a guiding lighting unit. The housing has an opening covered with a transparent opening cover. An imaging unit is disposed inside the housing. The reading lighting unit illuminates the opening cover from inside the housing. The guiding unit is provided on the same plane as the opening cover at a position separated from the opening cover. The guiding lighting unit emits light from the guiding unit to the outside of the housing.
Claims11
A reading device comprising:
- a housing having a housing cover that is not transparent, the housing cover including (i) a first opening covered with an opening cover that is transparent and (ii) a second opening provided on a same plane as the first opening at a position separated from the first opening;
- a guiding lighting unit that emits light to an outside of the housing to guide a user to appropriately place an object on the opening cover, the guiding lighting unit being located inside the second opening of the housing cover;
- a reading lighting unit that illuminates the opening cover from inside the housing and that illuminates that object placed on the opening cover by the user, the reading lighting unit being located on an inner sidewall of the housing;
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- an imaging unit disposed inside the housing that images the object placed by the user on the opening cover,
- wherein the reading lighting unit is disposed closer to the opening cover than the imaging unit, and the reading lighting unit is configured to prevent light illuminated from the reading lighting unit from reaching the imaging unit.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.