Image reader
AssigneeFujitsu Limited
InventorsHirotaka Chiba, Tsugio Noda, Yoshiro Ishikawa, Kenichiro Sakai
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Abstract
The image reader according to the present invention comprises a housing having substantially a box-shape and having an image reading surface contacting a document, a document detecting section provided to this image reading surface for detecting a document P, and an image reading section for reading an image on the document when the document P is detected by the document detecting section 105. This image reader enables improvement in convenience for users, operability, and adaptability for handling, and also it is small in size.
Claims105
An image reader for optically reading an image on a medium by means of manual operations comprising:
- a housing having an image reading surface coming in contact with the medium when reading an image;
- a medium detecting unit provided on the image reading surface for detecting the medium;
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- an image reading unit provided on said housing for reading image information of the medium according to a result of detection by said medium detecting unit.
An image reader for optically reading an image on a medium by means of manual operations comprising:
- a housing having an image reading surface coming in contact with the medium when reading an image;
- a displacement detecting unit for detecting a displacement of said housing;
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- an image reading unit provided on said housing for reading image information of the medium according to a result of detection by said displacement detecting unit.
An image reader for optically reading an image on a medium by means of manual operations comprising:
- a housing having an image reading surface coming in contact with the medium when reading an image;
- a medium detecting unit provided on the image reading surface for detecting the medium;
- a displacement detecting unit for detecting a displacement of said housing;
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- an image reading unit provided on said housing for reading image information of the medium according to both a result of detection by said medium detecting unit and a result of detection by said displacement detecting unit.
An image reader for optically reading an image on a medium by means of manual operations comprising:
- a medium detecting unit for detecting the medium;
- an image reading unit for reading an image on the medium;
- a displacement detecting unit for detecting a relative displacement between said image reading unit and the medium;
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- a controller for starting reading of an image on a medium when said medium detecting unit detects the medium as well as said displacement detecting unit detects a relative displacement between said image reading unit and the medium.
An image reader for optically reading an image on a medium by means of manual operations comprising:
- a reading unit for optically reading the image according to prespecified conditions for reading;
- a read start detecting unit for detecting start of reading of image on the medium;
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- a read condition deciding unit for deciding the conditions for reading when start of reading of the image is detected by said read start detecting unit.
An image reader for optically reading an image on a medium by means of manual operations comprising:
- a read instructing unit for instructing start and end of reading of the image;
- an image reading unit for reading the image;
- an image memory for storing a plurality of image data;
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- a read control unit for making said image reading unit start reading of an image and also making said image memory store the image data therein.
An image reader for optically reading an image on a medium by means of manual operations comprising:
- a housing having an image reading unit coming in contact with the medium when reading an image;
- a medium detecting unit provided on an image reading surface of said housing for detecting the medium;
- a control processing unit for providing controls over said medium detecting unit so that detection of the medium can normally be performed according to environments and conditions for reading an image and processing a result of detection by said image detecting unit;
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- an image reading unit for reading image information of the medium according to the result of detection processed by said control processing unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.