Image reading apparatus
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsTomoyuki Mokuo, Noriyuki Koyanagi, Keiichiro Fukumasu, Keisuke Miyauchi, Naoki Sakamoto
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Abstract
An image reading apparatus includes a separating roller that is capable of switching between a separation state in which an original document is separated and a non-separation state in which the original document is not separated, and determines whether or not the original document is fed in the separation state or the non-separation state based on the types of the original document set through a user interface for instructing a select of the types of the original document to be read and a start of reading the original document.
Claims4
An image reading apparatus comprising:
- a reader that reads a document, the document being a single-layered document made up of one layer and a multi-layered document made up of multiple layers;
- a document placing portion on which the document is placed;
- a feeding roller that feeds the document from the document placing portion;
- a separating roller that is a roller nipping the document between the feeding roller and the separating roller and is capable of switching between a separation state in which the document is separated and a non-separation state in which the document is not separated;
- a double-feeding detecting portion that detects double-feeding of the document on the downstream side of the feeding roller;
- a controller that controls feeding of the document;
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- a touch panel that displays a user interface, wherein
- the user interface displays the single-layered document and the multi-layered document in a selectable manner,
- the single-layered document and the multi-layered document are a photograph,
- when the single-layered document is selected, the controller uses the double-feeding detecting portion and feeds the single-layered document continuously in the separation state, and
- when the single-layered document is selected, the controller does not use the double-feeding detecting portion and feeds multi-layered document only one in the non-separation state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.