Image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus
AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
InventorAkifumi Seto
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Abstract
An image reading apparatus includes a CCD sensor that reads an image on a first face of a document, oriented upward on a document tray, while the document is being transported through the first transport route, a CIS that reads an image on a second face of the document, oriented downward on the document tray, while the document is being transported through the common transport route, and a controller that permits a facsimile communication device to transmit the image on the first face of the document read by the CCD sensor, and restricts the facsimile communication device from transmitting the image on the second face of the document, read by the CIS.
Claims6
An image reading apparatus comprising:
- a document tray;
- a common transport route;
- a first transport route and a second transport route branched from the common transport route;
- a switching device provided at a branch point between the first transport route and the second transport route, and configured to guide a document from the common transport route, to one of the first transport route and the second transport route;
- a document transport device that draws out the document placed on the document tray therefrom, transports the document through the common transport route, and delivers the document transported from the common transport route, to one of the first transport route and the second transport route, via the switching device;
- a first image sensor that reads an image on a first face of the document, oriented upward on the document tray, while the document is being transported through the first transport route;
- a second image sensor that reads an image on a second face of the document, oriented downward on the document tray, while the document is being transported through the common transport route;
- an image communication device that transmits the image on the first face or the image on the second face, via a network or facsimile communication;
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- a controller includes a processor and, through the processor executing a control program, that permits the image communication device to transmit the image on the first face, read by the first image sensor, of the document being transported through the first transport route, and restricts the image communication device from transmitting the image on the second face, read by the second image sensor, of the document being transported through the common transport route and the second transport route.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.