Read-out apparatus for an image detector
AssigneeFuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
InventorShinji Imai
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A read-out apparatus for an image detector scans the image detector, on which image information has been recorded as an electrostatic latent image, with a reading electromagnetic wave and detects electric currents caused by the scanning to flow out of the image detector in accordance with the electrostatic latent image. The read-out apparatus comprises a surface-shaped wave source constituted of a plurality of small wave sources, which are arrayed in a surface form and each of which produces the reading electromagnetic wave, and a wave source controller for performing the scanning by driving the small wave sources one after another. The read-out apparatus reads out the electrostatic latent image without mechanical scanning being required.
Claims14
A read-out apparatus for an image detector, wherein a reading electromagnetic wave is caused to scan an image detector, on which image information has been recorded as an electrostatic latent image, and electric currents caused by the scanning to flow out of the image detector in accordance with the electrostatic latent image are detected, the read-out apparatus comprising:
- i) a surface-shaped wave source constituted of a plurality of small wave sources, which are arrayed in a surface form and each of which produces the reading electromagnetic wave, and
- ii) wave source control means for performing the scanning by driving said small wave sources one after another.
An image detecting and read-out apparatus, comprising:
- i) an image detector, which records image information as an electrostatic latent image and which generates electric currents in accordance with the electrostatic latent image when it is scanned with a reading electromagnetic wave,
- ii) current detecting means for detecting the electric currents generated by said image detector,
- iii) a surface-shaped wave source constituted of a plurality of small wave sources, which are arrayed in a surface form and each of which produces the reading electromagnetic wave, and
- iv) wave source control means for performing the scanning by driving said small wave sources one after another,
- said image detector, said current detecting means, said surface-shaped wave source, and said wave source control means being combined with one another.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.