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US 6,297,872 B1Granted
Image forming apparatus
AssigneeKonica Corporation
InventorsJunichi Imamura, Yoshiaki Yamanaka
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Abstract
An image reading apparatus includes: a size detector for detecting a first size of a first image recorded on an original; an input device for inputting a second size of a second image to be recorded on a recording medium by an image recording apparatus; a determining device for determining a reading condition to read the first image according to the first and second sizes; and a reading device for reading the first image according to the reading condition to obtain information of the first image.
Claims7
An image reading apparatus comprising:
- (a) means for detecting a size of a first image recorded on an original;
- (b) means for inputting a size and resolving power of a second image to be recorded on a recording medium by an image recording apparatus;
- (c) means for determining a reading condition to read the first image, the reading condition being determined based on (i) a number of pixels required for the second image and obtained from the size and the resolving power of the second image, and (ii) the size of the first image;
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- (d) means for reading the first image according to the reading condition.
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An image recording apparatus comprising:
- (a) means for reading a first image recorded on an original to obtain information from the first image;
- (b) image recording means for recording a second image on a recording medium according to the information from the first image;
- (c) means for inputting a size and resolving power of the second image, and a size of the first image;
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- (d) means for determining a reading condition according to (i) a number of pixels required for the second image and obtained from the size and the resolving power of the second image, and (ii) the size of the first image,
- wherein the reading means reads the first image according to said reading condition.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.