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US 5,331,375 AGranted
Image forming apparatus for writing a plurality of additional data on a single copy sheet
AssigneeMinolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMasazumi Ito
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Abstract
A copying apparatus capable of copying the images of a plurality of original documents onto the same surface of a single copy sheet. The aforesaid copying apparatus is capable of writing the date, page number and like additional data on the same surface of a single copy sheet as the original document images. The additional data is written at positions corresponding to the original document images, and when two original document images are copied onto the same surface of a single copy sheet, the additional data is written at positions corresponding to the respective document images.
Claims20
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a platen on which an original document is placed;
- original image forming means for forming an image of the original document placed on the platen on a copy sheet, said original image forming means including a multiple image forming mode in which a plurality of images of original documents are formed on different sections of a single surface of a copy sheet;
- additional data image forming means for forming a plurality of additional data images at different positions onto the same surface of the copy sheet on which said plurality of images of original documents are formed;
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- control means for controlling said additional data image forming means so that each of said additional data images may correspond to any one of said plurality of images of the original documents one to one.
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An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a platen on which an original document is placed;
- original image forming means for forming an image of the original document placed on the platen on a copy sheet, said original image forming means including a multiple image forming mode in which a plurality of images of original documents are formed on a single surface of a copy sheet;
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- additional data image forming means for forming a plurality of additional data images at different positions onto the same surface of the copy sheet on which said plurality of images of original documents are formed, each of said additional data images corresponding to one of said images of the original documents;
- said original image forming means includes;
- a photosensitive member;
- illuminating means for illuminating an original document placed on the platen;
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- an optical system for exposing said photosensitive member to an image of the original document illuminated by said illuminating means;
- said additional data image forming means includes;
- a memory which stores data corresponding to the additional data images;
- light emitting means for selectively emitting light in accordance with the data stored in the memory;
- wherein said additional image forming means is capable of placing the additional data images at different places on a copy sheet.
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An image forming apparatus comprising:
- platen on which an original document is placed;
- original image forming means for forming an image of a first original document placed on the platen and an image of a second original document placed on the platen onto a single surface of a copy sheet side by side, the image of the first original document formed in a first half area of the surface of the copy sheet and the image of the second original document formed in a second half area of the surface of the copy sheet;
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- additional data image forming means for forming a first additional data image in the first half area of the copy sheet and forming a second additional data image in the second half area of the copy sheet.
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An image forming apparatus comprising:
- platen which is capable of supporting at least two original documents side by side;
- original document feeding means for feeding a first original document and a second original document successively and setting them side by side on the platen;
- original image forming means for forming an image of the first original document and an image of the second original document placed on the platen onto a single surface of a copy sheet side by side, the image of the first original document formed in a first half area of the surface of the copy sheet and the image of the second original document formed in a second half area of the surface of the copy sheet;
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- additional data image forming means for forming a first additional data image in the first half area of the copy sheet and forming a second additional data image in the second half area of the copy sheet.
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An image forming apparatus comprising:
- platen on which an original document is placed;
- mode selecting means for selecting one of either a first mode or second mode;
- original image forming means for forming an image of the original document placed on the platen on a copy sheet, said original image forming means forms a single image on a single surface of a copy sheet in a first mode and forms a plurality of original document images on a single surface of a copy sheet in a second mode;
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- additional data image forming means for forming an additional data image on the same surface of a copy sheet on which the image is formed by said additional image forming means, said original image forming means forms a single additional data image in the first mode and forms a plurality of additional data images at different positions corresponding to the images of the original document in the second mode.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.