Portable electronic copying machine
AssigneeFuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
InventorsMichio Cho, Ko Aosaki, Tokuji Sato
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Abstract
An electronic copying machine comprises an optical image forming system for forming an optical image of a remote surface on an image plane, and an image sensor disposed in the image plane and transversely movable in the image plane for scanning the optical image and converting the image into image signals. A scanning area defining device defines the height of the image sensor so as to scan the image plane according to the height of the remote surface. An image printing unit including a printing head is driven according to the image signals for printing an image on paper.
Claims11
A portable electronic copying machine for making a hard copy of a surface remote from said machine, comprising:
- a thin substantially parallelepipedal housing having a front-to-rear depth substantially greater than its side-to-side width;
- image pick-up means disposed in an upper portion of said housing for forming an image of a remote surface and converting said image into image signals, said image pick-up means having an axis extending in a lengthwise direction from front to rear of said upper portion of said housing;
- a power supply unit including at least a power transformer disposed in the bottom of said housing;
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- an image printing unit including a printing head disposed between said image pick-up means and said power supply unit, said printing head being driven according to said image signals to print an image of said remote surface on paper.
A portable electronic copying machine for making a hard copy of a remote surface, comprising:
- a housing;
- image-forming optical means disposed in said housing for forming an optical image of a remote surface in an image plane;
- image sensor means disposed in said image plane and moving in said image plane for scanning said optical image to convert said optical image into image signals;
- scanning area defining means for selectively varying the vertical extent sensed by said image sensor so as to scan said optical image according to the height of said remote surface;
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- a printing unit including a printing head driven according to said image signals for printing an image of said remote surface on paper.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.