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US 9,319,546 B2Granted
Reading apparatus
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHiroko Mori
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Abstract
A reading apparatus including a reading device, a sheet tray, a conveyer, a receiving device, and a control device configured to execute, when the receiving device receives a read instruction, a conveying process of causing the conveyer to start conveyance of a sheet, execute a reading process of causing the reading device to read an image of the sheet passing a reading position of the reading device, execute a stop determining process of determining whether a stop condition of the conveyer is satisfied, and execute, in response to determining that the stop condition is satisfied, a stopping process of causing a leading edge of a next sheet to be stopped in a specific position which is any position between the sheet tray and the reading position.
Claims23
A reading apparatus comprising:
- a reading device comprising a light source and a light receiver;
- a sheet tray;
- a conveyer;
- a receiving device;
- and
- a control device comprising a processor and a memory storing instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the control device to:
- execute, when the receiving device receives a read instruction, a conveying process of causing the conveyer to perform a conveying operation of starting conveyance of a sheet,
- execute a reading process of causing the reading device to read an image of the sheet conveyed by the conveyer while the sheet is passing a reading position of the reading device,
- execute a stop determining process of determining whether a stop condition of the conveyer is satisfied, and
- execute, in response to determining in the stop determining process that the stop condition is satisfied, a stopping process of causing a leading edge of a next sheet, which is a sheet next to the sheet for which the reading process is executed, to be stopped in a specific position which is any position between the sheet tray and the reading position,
- wherein in the reading process, the control device is caused to execute an over-scan mode reading operation in which the reading device is caused to start reading the image when a leading edge of the sheet conveyed by the conveyer reaches an upstream position which is upstream to the reading position by a first distance in the conveyance direction of the conveyer.
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A reading apparatus comprising:
- a reading device comprising a light source and a light receiver;
- a sheet tray;
- a conveyer;
- a receiving device;
- and
- a control device comprising a processor and a memory storing instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the control device to:
- execute, when the receiving device receives a read instruction, a conveying process of causing the conveyer to perform a conveying operation of starting conveyance of a sheet,
- execute a reading process of causing the reading device to read an image of the sheet conveyed by the conveyer while the sheet is passing a reading position of the reading device,
- execute a stop determining process of determining whether a stop condition of the conveyer is satisfied,
- execute in response to determining in the stop determining process that the stop condition is satisfied, a stopping process of causing a leading edge of a next sheet, which is a sheet next to the sheet for which the reading process is executed, to be stopped in a specific position which is any position between the sheet tray and the reading position,
- execute, when the receiving device receives the read instruction, an acquiring process of acquiring a read result of the reading device before the sheet reaches the reading position, and
- execute an acquisition determining process of determining whether an execution condition for executing the acquiring process is satisfied, and
- wherein in the stopping process, in a case where it is determined in the acquisition determining process that the execution condition for executing the acquiring process is satisfied, the control device causes the conveyer to stop the next sheet in a position at a more upstream side in the conveyance direction of the conveyer as compared to a case where it is determined that the execution condition for executing the acquiring process is not satisfied.
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A reading apparatus comprising:
- a reading device comprising a light source and a light receiver;
- a sheet tray;
- a conveyer;
- a receiving device;
- and
- a control device comprising a processor and a memory storing instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the control device to:
- execute a conveying process of causing the conveyer to perform a conveying operation of starting conveyance of a sheet,
- execute a reading process of causing the reading device to read an image of the sheet conveyed by the conveyer while the sheet is passing a reading position of the reading device,
- execute, when the receiving device receives the read instruction, an acquiring process of acquiring a read result of the reading device before the sheet reaches the reading position,
- execute, when the receiving device receives the read instruction, a conveyance determining process of determining whether there is a sheet whose leading edge is stopped in a specific position which is any position between the sheet tray and the reading position, and
- execute a time changing process of making a time until starting of conveyance of the sheet after the receiving device receives the read instruction to be longer in a case where it is determined in the conveyance determining process that there is a sheet whose leading edge is stopped in the specific position than in a case where it is determined in the conveyance determining process that there is no sheet whose leading edge is stopped in the specific position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.