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US 12,585,097 B2Granted
Optical apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMasayasu Teramura
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Abstract
An apparatus according to the aspect of the embodiments includes a light source, a first surface configured to reflect light from the light source toward an object, a second surface with a shape different from a shape of the first surface in which the second surface is configured to reflect a part of the light from the object toward the object, and a third surface configured to reflect a part of the light reflected by the second surface and then reflected by the object, toward a light receiving element.
Claims19
An apparatus comprising:
- a light source;
- a light receiving element;
- a first surface configured to reflect light from the light source toward an object;
- a second surface with a shape different from a shape of the first surface, the second surface being configured to reflect a part of the light from the object toward the object;
- a third surface configured to reflect a part of the light reflected by the second surface and then reflected by the object, toward the light receiving element;
- a scanning unit configured to scan a scanned surface;
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- a controller configured to convert a signal output from an external apparatus into image data and input the image data to the scanning unit.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a light source;
- a light receiving element;
- a first surface configured to reflect light from the light source toward an object;
- a second surface with a shape different from a shape of the first surface, the second surface being configured to reflect a part of the light from the object toward the object;
- a third surface configured to reflect a part of the light reflected by the second surface and then reflected by the object, toward the light receiving element;
- a scanning unit configured to scan a scanned surface;
- a developing unit configured to develop, as a toner image, an electrostatic latent image formed on the scanned surface by the scanning unit;
- a transferring unit configured to transfer the developed toner image onto a transferred material;
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- a fixing unit configured to fix the transferred toner image on the transferred material.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.