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US 2002/0176115 A1Published application
Information reading apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYuichi Yamamoto
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Abstract
An information reading apparatus reads information on a recording sheet. The apparatus includes a first information reading unit reads information recorded to one side of an information sheet. A second information reading unit that reads information recorded to the other side of the information sheet. An information sheet conveying unit conveys the information sheet to the second information reading unit via the first information reading unit. A control unit indicates one of the first information reading unit and the second information reading unit to re-read the information sheet when the other one of the information reading unit is unable to read the information.
Claims11
An information reading apparatus comprising:
- a first information reading means for reading information recorded to one side of the information sheet;
- a second information reading means for reading information recorded to the other side of the information sheet;
- an information sheet conveying means for conveying the information sheet to the second information reading means via the first information reading means;
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- a control means for indicating one of the first information reading means and the second information reading means to re-read the information sheet when the other one of the information reading means is unable to read information.
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An information reading apparatus comprising:
- an information sheet stacking means for stacking an information sheet having information recorded thereto;
- a first information reading means for reading information recorded to one side of the information sheet fed from the information sheet stacking means;
- a second information reading means for reading information recorded to the other side of the information sheet;
- an information sheet conveying means for conveying the information sheet from the information sheet stacking means to the second information reading means via the first information reading means;
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- an information sheet backward conveyance means for conveying the information sheet from the second information reading means to the information sheet conveying means between the information sheet stacking means and the first information reading means.
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An information reading apparatus comprising:
- an information sheet stacking means for stacking an information sheet having information recorded thereto;
- a first information reading means for reading information recorded to one side of the information sheet fed from the information sheet stacking means;
- a second information reading means for reading information recorded to the other side of the information sheet;
- an information sheet conveying means for conveying the information sheet from the information sheet stacking means to the second information reading means via the first information reading means;
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- a memory means being able to switch between a first reading mode for reading one side of the information sheet with one of the first information reading means and the second information reading means and a second reading mode for reading the other side of the information sheet with one of the first information reading means and the second information reading means when the other one of the information reading means is unable to read information, and being able to memorize information read from the first reading mode and the second reading mode in a sequential page order of the information sheet.
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An information reading apparatus comprising:
- an information sheet stacking means for stacking an information sheet having information recorded thereto;
- a first information reading means for reading information recorded to one side of the information sheet fed from the information sheet stacking means;
- a second information reading means for reading information recorded to the other side of the information sheet;
- an information sheet conveying means for conveying the information sheet from the information sheet stacking means to the second information reading means via the first information reading means;
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- an indicating means for indicating a stack state of the information sheet on the information sheet stacking means subsequent to reading one side of the information sheet with one of the first information reading means and the second information reading means when the other information reading means is unable to read.
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An information reading apparatus comprising:
- an information sheet stacking means for stacking an information sheet having information recorded thereto;
- a first information reading means arranged upstream relative to a conveyance direction for reading information recorded to one side of the information sheet fed from the information sheet stacking means;
- a second information reading means arranged downstream relative to a conveyance direction for reading information recorded to the other side of the information sheet;
- an information sheet conveying means for conveying the information sheet from the information sheet stacking means to the second information reading means via the first information reading means;
- a backward conveyance means arranged downstream of the second information reading means for reversing a conveyance direction and the front-back sides of an information sheet and then conveying an information sheet to the first information reading means,
- wherein the second information reading means reads information recorded to one side of the information sheet and then reads information recorded to the other side of the information sheet after the information sheet is reversed by the backward conveyance means when the first information reading means is unable to read, and
- wherein the first information reading means reads information recorded to one side of the information sheet and then reads information recorded to the other side of the information sheet after the information sheet is reversed by the backward conveyance means when the second information reading means is unable to read.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.