Image-reading method and apparatus
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorShigeo Miyamoto
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Abstract
An image-reading method which allows a transporting motor to transport, relative to each other, an original document having an image to be read and a light-receiving element for scanning the image in the width direction, so as to read the image in a direction that is orthogonal to the width direction. The method allows the light-receiving element to read the image and output the resulting image data. The transporting speed of the transporting motor is increased based on the desired suppression in the resolution of the image data. Therefore, a facsimile machine using the above-mentioned method can read the image of an original document with a desired resolution.
Claims18
An image-reading method comprising:
- transporting, relative to one another, an original document having an image to be read and a reading member for scanning the image in a first direction so as to read the image in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction;
- and
- allowing the reading member to output the image as read image data,
- wherein transporting speed of the transporting member is increased in accordance with a desired suppression in resolution in the image data,
- wherein said transporting member is a stepping motor for intermittently carrying out the transporting operation;
- wherein, supposing that a discrimination of the transporting member, that is, a minimum transporting interval, is F (mm/step) and a desired resolution is P (mm/line), and that an error that is allowable based upon a standard applied thereto is ±α, arbitrary integers n and I that satisfy the following inequality are found:
- 1−α<(F×n)/(P×I)<1+α;
- and
- wherein, supposing that the reading member has a reading speed Vp (msec/line), the transporting member has a transporting speed Vf (msec/step) that is set as follows:
- Vf=Vp×i/n.
An image-reading apparatus comprising:
- a reading member for scanning an image to be read in a first direction so as to output image data derived from the image;
- a transporting member for transporting the original document and the reading member relative to each other in a second direction that is orthogonal to the first direction;
- and
- a control member for increasing the transporting speed of the transporting member in accordance with a desired suppression in the resolution in the image data,
- wherein said transporting member is a stepping motor for intermittently carrying out the transporting operation;
- and
- said control member provides a control operation in which:
- supposing that a discrimination of the transporting member, that is, a minimum transporting interval, is F (mm/step) and a desired resolution is P (mm/line), and that an error that is allowable based upon a standard applied thereto is ±α, arbitrary integers n and I that satisfy the following inequality are found:
- 1−α(F×n)/(P×i)<1+α;
- and
- supposing that the reading member has a reading speed Vp (msec/line), the transporting member has a transporting speed Vf (msec/step) that is set as follows:
- Vf=Vp×i/n.
An image-reading method comprising:
- transporting an image of an original document in a first direction;
- scanning said image in a second direction so that said original image is read in said first direction,
- wherein an error that is allowable based upon a standard applied thereto for the method, ±α, is defined for integers n and i which satisfy the inequality:
- 1−α≦(F×n)/(P×i)≦1+α,
- where F is a minimum transporting interval (mm/step) and P is a desired resolution (mm/line), and
- wherein a transporting speed Vf for a given reading speed Vp is defined by:
- Vf=Vp×i/n.
An image-reading apparatus comprising:
- a stepper motor for transporting an image of an original document in a first direction;
- a plurality of light receiving elements for scanning said image in a second direction so that said original image is read out in said first direction,
- wherein an error that is allowable based upon a standard applied thereto for the apparatus, ±α, is defined for integers n and i which satisfy the inequality:
- 1−α≦(F×n)/(P×i)≦1+α,
- where F is a minimum transporting interval (mm/step) and P is a desired resolution (mm/line), and
- wherein a transporting speed Vf of the stepping motor for a given reading speed for the plurality of light receiving elements Vp is defined by:
- Vf=Vp×i/n.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.