Image recording apparatus for selective recording of originals
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKazuo Kashiwagi, Masahiko Ito, Hirokazu Higuchi
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Abstract
An image recording apparatus provided with a reader for reading information for identifying the original image; a recorder for recording the original on a recording medium; a transporting unit for transporting the original to the reader and the recorder unit; a detector for detecting the presence or absence of the identifying information on the original; and a controller for selecting whether or not to record the original according to the outputs of the detector and the reader.
Claims25
An image recording apparatus for recording on a recording medium an image of an original provided with identifying information, comprising:
- reading means for reading the identifying information of the original;
- recording means for recording an image of the original on the recording medium;
- transporting means for transporting the original to said reading means and said recording means;
- detecting means for detecting whether the original is provided with the identifying information or not;
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- control means for selecting whether recording of the original is effected or not according to a content of the detecting by said detecting means and a content of the reading by said reading means.
An apparatus according to claim 158 wherein said input means comprises a reader for reading the identifying information by manual scanning.
An information processing apparatus comprising:
- reading means for reading an identifying information provided on an original for identifying the original;
- recording means for recording the original on a recording medium;
- detecting means for detecting the presence or absence of said identifying information, on the basis of an output of said reading means;
- signal generating means for generating a code signal corresponding to said identifying information according to the output of said reading means;
- control means for controlling whether the recording means effects recording of said original or not according to a content of the detecting by said detecting means and a content of the reading by said reading means;
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- memory means for storing a code signal generated by said signal generating means and a position of an image recorded on the recording medium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.