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US 6,744,537 B1Granted
Image reader
AssigneeFujitsu Limited
InventorsHirotaka Chiba, Tsugio Noda, Yoshiro Ishikawa, Kenichiro Sakai
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Abstract
The image reader according to the present invention comprises a housing having substantially a box-shape and having an image reading surface contacting a document, a document detecting section provided to this image reading surface for detecting a document P, and an image reading section for reading an image on the document when the document P is detected by the document detecting section 105. This image reader enables improvement in convenience for users, operability, and adaptability for handling, and also it is small in size.
Claims41
An image reader for optically reading an image on a medium by means of manual operations comprising:
- a housing having an image reading surface coming in contact with the medium when reading an image;
- a medium detecting unit provided on the image reading surface for detecting the medium;
- an image reading unit provided on said housing for reading image information of the medium according to a result of detection by said medium detecting unit, and
- a display control unit to display a whole or a portion of an image contracted or enlarged by overlapping other images.
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An image reader for optically reading an image on a medium by means of manual operations comprising:
- a housing having an image reading surface coming in contact with the medium when reading an image;
- a medium detecting unit provided on the image reading surface for detecting the medium;
- an image reading unit provided on said housing for reading image information of the medium according to a result of detection by said medium detecting unit;
- a memory for storing the data corresponding to a plurality of images read by said image reading unit as image data;
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- a communicating unit working as a communication interface between said memory and an external device with said external device capable of accessing said memory connectable thereto.
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An image reader for optically reading an image on a medium by means of manual operations comprising:
- a housing having an image reading surface coming in contact with the medium when reading an image;
- a medium detecting unit provided on the image reading surface for detecting the medium;
- an image reading unit provided on said housing for reading image information of the medium according to a result of detection by said medium detecting unit;
- a memory for storing the data corresponding to a plurality of images read by said image reading unit as image data;
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- a transmitting unit with an external device connectable thereto for transmitting a result of reading by said image reading unit as image data to said external device.
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An image reader for optically reading an image on a medium by means of manual operations comprising:
- a housing having an image reading surface coming in contact with the medium when reading an image;
- a medium detecting unit provided on the image reading surface for detecting the medium;
- an image reading unit provided on said housing for reading image information of the medium according to a result of detection by said medium detecting unit;
- a display unit provided on an operating surface of said housing for displaying an image according to a result of reading by said image reading unit;
- a instructing unit for indicating a direction when an image is to be displayed on the display of said display unit;
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- a display control unit for controlling the displaying direction of the image on said display unit according to contents of an instruction from said instructing unit.
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An image reader for optically reading an image on a medium by means of manual operations comprising:
- a housing having an image reading surface coming in contact with the medium when reading an image;
- a medium detecting unit provided on the image reading surface for detecting the medium;
- an image reading unit provided on said housing for reading image information of the medium according to a result of detection by said medium detecting unit;
- a display unit provided on an operating surface of said housing for displaying an image according to a result of reading by said image reading unit;
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- a display control unit for dividing an image displayed by said display unit with a ratio of N:M (N+M=1) and displaying each of the divided images with a different contraction ratio or enlargement ratio.
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An image reader for optically reading an image on a medium by means of manual operations comprising:
- a housing having an image reading surface coming in contact with the medium when reading an image;
- a medium detecting unit provided on the image reading surface for detecting the medium;
- an image reading unit provided on said housing for reading image information of the medium according to a result of detection by said medium detecting unit;
- a display unit provided on an operating surface of said housing for displaying an image according to a result of reading by said image reading unit;
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- a display control unit for displaying a whole or a portion of an image with the same, contracted or enlarged size as compared to the size of the original image displayed by said display unit by overlapping on the other image(s).
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An image reader for optically reading an image on a medium by means of manual operations comprising:
- a housing having an image reading surface coming in contact with the medium when reading an image;
- a medium detecting unit provided on the image reading surface for detecting the medium;
- an image reading unit provided on said housing for reading image information of the medium according to a result of detection by said medium detecting unit;
- a display unit provided on an operating surface of said housing for displaying an image according to a result of reading by said image reading unit;
- a display control unit for displaying in an array of images displayed by said display unit which images are rotated or inverted in a plurality of directions;
- a selecting unit for selecting any one image from the displayed rotated or inverted images;
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- a right posture correcting unit for converting the orientation of the read image according to the orientation of the image selected by said selecting unit.
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An image reader for optically reading an image on a medium by means of manual operations comprising:
- a housing having an image reading surface coming in contact with the medium when reading an image;
- a medium detecting unit provided on the image reading surface for detecting the medium;
- an image reading unit provided on said housing for reading image information of the medium according to a result of detection by said medium detecting unit;
- a display unit provided on an operating surface of said housing for displaying an image according to a result of reading by said image reading unit;
- a text portion determining unit for determining a text portion of the image;
- a rotation direction detecting unit for detecting a direction of rotation of an image from a character image for the text portion determined by said text portion determining unit;
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- a display control unit for displaying the image as a properly oriented image on the display of said display unit according to a result of detection by said rotation direction detecting unit.
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An image reader for optically reading an image on a medium by means of manual operations comprising:
- a housing having an image reading surface coming in contact with the medium when reading an image;
- a medium detecting unit provided on the image reading surface for detecting the medium;
- an image reading unit provided on said housing for reading image information of the medium according to a result of detection by said medium detecting unit;
- a display unit provided on an operating surface of said housing for displaying an image according to a result of reading by said image reading unit;
- a classifying unit for classifying a plurality of images read by said image reading unit according to prespecified items for classification;
- a selecting unit for selecting any of the items for classification;
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- a display control unit for displaying the images corresponding to the item for classification selected by said selecting unit.
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An image reader for optically reading an image on a medium by means of manual operations comprising:
- a housing having an image reading surface coming in contact with the medium when reading an image;
- a medium detecting unit provided on the image reading surface for detecting the medium;
- an image reading unit provided on said housing for reading image information of the medium according to a result of detection by said medium detecting unit;
- a display unit provided on an operating surface of said housing for displaying an image according to a result of reading by said image reading unit;
- a digitizing unit for digitizing a read image by generating a threshold value for digitizing according to the read image by said image reading unit.
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An image reader for optically reading an image on a medium by means of manual operations comprising:
- a housing having an image reading surface coming in contact with the medium when reading an image;
- a medium detecting unit provided on the image reading surface for detecting the medium;
- an image reading unit provided on said housing for reading image information of the medium according to a result of detection by said medium detecting unit;
- a display unit provided on an operating surface of said housing for displaying an image according to a result of reading by said image reading unit;
- wherein, when reading an image, an action point of grasping fingers is at a position lower than a center of gravity of said image reader and at the same time a height of the action point is smaller than a width of said housing.
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An image reader for optically reading an image on a medium by means of manual operations comprising:
- a housing having an image reading unit coming in contact with the medium when reading an image;
- a medium detecting unit provided on an image reading surface of said housing for detecting the medium;
- a control processing unit for providing controls over said medium detecting unit so that detection of the medium can normally be performed according to environments and conditions for reading an image and processing a result of detection by said image detecting unit;
- an image reading unit for reading image information of the medium according to the result of detection processed by said control processing unit, and
- a display control unit to display a whole or a portion of an image contracted or enlarged by overlapping other images.
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An image reader for optically reading an image on a medium by means of manual operations comprising:
- a housing having an image reading unit coming in contact with the medium when reading an image;
- a medium detecting unit provided on an image reading surface of said housing for detecting the medium;
- a control processing unit for providing controls over said medium detecting unit so that detection of the medium can normally be performed according to environments and conditions for reading an image and processing a result of detection by said image detecting unit,
- an image reading unit for reading image information of the medium according to the result of detection processed by said control processing unit, and
- a priority deciding unit for deciding and giving preference to any one of the result of detection by said photoelectric switch or said mechanical switch in order to execute the control processing in said control processing unit,
- wherein said medium detecting unit consists of a photoelectric switch for detecting the medium optically or a mechanical switch for detecting the medium mechanically.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.