Image capture apparatus
AssigneeBENQ CORPORATION A Corporation organized under the laws of Taiwan
InventorsMing-Kuan Qian, Ming-Tsung Cheng, Kun-Yee Yang
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Abstract
An image capture apparatus is provided. The image capture apparatus includes a window glass, an image sensor under the window glass, a spacer that is between and firmly in contact with the window glass and the image sensor, and an adjustment module connected to the image sensor. The adjustment module adjusts the relative distance between the spacer and the image sensor module to accommodate different objects to be scanned. The present invention also provides a novel approach to adjust the relative distance between the spacer and the image sensor module by utilizing convex portions and corresponding depressions on the spacer and the image sensor module.
Claims20
An image capture apparatus comprising:
- a window glass;
- an image sensor module located below the windows glass;
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- a spacer disposed between the window glass and the image sensor, the spacer contacting closely with the window glass and relatively movably disposed on the image sensor module with a relative distance between the spacer and the image sensor module;
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- wherein, the relative distance is a first distance as the spacer moves to a first position, and the relative distance is a second distance larger than the first distance as the spacer moves to a second position.
An image capture apparatus comprising:
- a window glass;
- a spacer disposed between the window glass and the image sensor, the spacer contacting closely with the window glass;
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- an image sensor module located below the spacer, the image sensor module including an elastic device, the elastic device providing a force to make the image sensor module and the window glass contact closely with the spacer;
- wherein, the spacer is relatively movably disposed on the image sensor module with a relative distance between the spacer and the image sensor module, and the relative distance is a first distance as the spacer moves to a first position, and the relative distance is a second distance larger than the first distance as the spacer moves to a second position.
An image capture apparatus comprising:
- a window glass;
- an image sensor module located below the windows glass, the image sensor module including a depression;
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- a spacer disposed between the window glass and the image sensor with a relative distance between the spacer and the image sensor module, the spacer including a convex portion;
- wherein, the convex portion slides into the depression to make the relative distance as being the first distance as the image sensor module is in a first scanning state, and the convex portion slides out of the depression to make the relative distance as being the second distance as the image sensor module is in a second scanning state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.