Image forming apparatus image forming method and image sensor
AssigneePanasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
InventorsYasuhiko Adachi, Yoshikuni Sato, Hideto Motomura
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Abstract
An exemplary image forming apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: a light source which irradiates an object with light and of which the orientation and position are fixed; a tilting mechanism which tilts the object at multiple tilt angles; an image sensor which is arranged at a position where the light that has been transmitted through the object is incident, gets tilted along with the object by the tilting mechanism, and captures a plurality of images at the multiple tilt angles; and an image processing section which forms a high-resolution image of the object, having a higher resolution than any of the plurality of images, by synthesizing the plurality of images together.
Claims12
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a light source which irradiates an object with light and of which the orientation and position are fixed;
- a tilting mechanism which tilts the object at multiple tilt angles;
- an image sensor which is arranged at a position where the light that has been transmitted through the object is incident, gets tilted along with the object by the tilting mechanism, and captures a plurality of images at the multiple tilt angles;
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- an image processing section which forms a high-resolution image of the object, having a higher resolution than any of the plurality of images, by synthesizing the plurality of images together.
An image forming method comprising:
- irradiating an object with illuminating light which has been emitted from a fixed light source while tilting the object at multiple tilt angles;
- capturing a plurality of images at the multiple tilt angles using an image sensor which is arranged at a position where the illuminating light that has been transmitted through the object is incident;
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- forming a high-resolution image of the object, having a higher resolution than any of the plurality of images, by synthesizing the plurality of images together.
An image sensor for use in an image forming apparatus, the image forming apparatus comprising:
- i) a light source which irradiates an object with light and of which the orientation and position are fixed;
- ii) a tilting mechanism which tilts the object at multiple tilt angles;
- iii) a holder which holds the image sensor in an attachable and removable state;
- and iV) an image processing section which forms, by synthesizing together a plurality of different images that have been captured by the image sensor, a high-resolution image of the object having a higher resolution than any of the plurality of images,
- the image sensor being arranged attachably to, and removably from, the image forming apparatus,
- an imaging surface of the image sensor has an object supporting portion which is a region on which the object is able to be mounted, and
- the image sensor is arranged at a position where the light beams transmitted through the object are incident while being held by the holder onto the image forming apparatus and captures the plurality of images at the multiple different tilt angles by getting tilted along with the object by the tilting mechanism.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.