Recording media deciding apparatus, image forming apparatus and recording media deciding method
AssigneesToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorsHiromichi HAYASHIHARA, Masataka SHIRATSUCHI
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Abstract
A recording media deciding apparatus has: a light radiating portion which radiates light having a uniform light amount on a range corresponding to an image capturing range of a first surface of a bundle of recording media; a light detecting portion which captures an image of light emitted from a second surface different from the first surface of the bundle of the recording media; and a controller which decides on a type of the recording media based on an output of the light detecting portion.
Claims20
A recording media deciding apparatus comprising:
- a light radiating portion which radiates light on a first surface of a bundle of recording media;
- a light detecting portion which captures an image of the light radiated on a range corresponding to an image capturing range by the light radiating portion and emitted from a second surface different from the first surface of the bundle of the recording media;
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- a controller which decides on a type of the recording media based on an output of the light detecting portion.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a recording media supplying unit which supplies recording media;
- a recording media conveying mechanism which conveys the recording media supplied from the recording media supplying unit;
- an image forming portion which forms an image on the recording media;
- a light radiating portion which radiates light on a first surface of a bundle of recording media;
- a light detecting portion which captures an image of the light radiated on a range corresponding to an image capturing range by the light radiating portion and emitted from a second surface different from the first surface of the bundle of the recording media;
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- a controller which decides on a type of the recording media based on an output of the light detecting portion.
A recording media deciding method comprising:
- radiating light on a first surface of a bundle of recording media;
- capturing an image of the light radiated on a range corresponding to an image capturing range and emitted from a second surface different from the first surface of the bundle of the recording media;
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- deciding on a type of the recording media based on data of a captured image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.