Image reading apparatus and method for controlling image reading apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYoshiro Tachibana
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Abstract
An image reading apparatus includes a document tray on which a plurality of documents is stacked, a feeding unit that feeds the documents on the document tray, a detection unit that detects a double feed of the documents fed by the feeding unit, and a notification unit that issues a notification prompting a user to loosen the documents when the detection unit detects the double feed.
Claims11
An image reading apparatus comprising:
- a document tray on which a plurality of documents is stacked;
- a feeding unit configured to feed the documents on the document tray;
- a detection unit configured to detect a double feed of the documents fed by the feeding unit;
- and
- a notification unit configured to issue a notification prompting a user to loosen the documents when the detection unit detects the double feed.
A method for controlling a document reading apparatus comprising a feeding unit configured to feed documents stacked on a document tray and a reading unit configured to read an image on a document fed by the feeding unit, the control method comprising:
- detecting whether a double feed of the documents fed by the feeding unit has occurred;
- and
- issuing a notification prompting a user to loosen the documents when detection of the double feed of the documents occurs.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.