Image reading apparatus and method
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMasayuki Hongo
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Abstract
An image reading apparatus executes stop processing to stop scanning of the carriage during the scan operation, acquires information on the stop processing executed by the control unit, corrects a restart position of the carriage for a document image reading after the stop processing based on the information acquired.
Claims10
An image reading apparatus which performs a scan operation of a carriage which includes an optical system part for a document image, the apparatus comprising:
- a control unit configured to control the carriage to stop and to restart during one scan operation;
- an acquisition unit configured to acquire information on the stop and the restart of the carriage during the one scan operation;
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- a correction unit configured to correct a position for the restart of the carriage after the stop of the carriage during the one scan operation, wherein the position is corrected based at least in part on the acquired information.
An image reading method executed in an image reading apparatus which performs a scan operation of a carriage which includes an optical system part for a document image, the method comprising:
- controlling the carriage to stop and to restart during one scan operation;
- acquiring information on the stop and the restart of the carriage during the one scan operation;
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- correcting a position for the restart of the carriage after the stop of the carriage during the one scan operation, wherein the position is corrected based at least in part on the acquired information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.