Abstract:
An image reading apparatus includes: a document holder on which a document is placed; a document positioning member, wherein the document is positioned on the document holder according to the document positioning member; an image reading device for reading an image of the document positioned on the document holder; and a correcting device for correcting an inclination of the image read by the image reading device according to an inclination of the document positioning member. The inclination of the document positioning member is an inclination on the document holder for a primary scanning direction.
Abstract:
For preventing occurrence of interference fringes derived from interference of light rays on a contact plane between a contact glass and a cover glass, and thus homogenizing an output wave that may otherwise undergo the adverse effect of interference fringes, a close-contact type image sensor includes a contact glass arranged to come into contact with a read surface of an original, a light source for irradiating light to the read surface, an image forming lens for converging light reflected from the read surface, an image sensor part for reading an image of the original formed on an image plane of the image forming lens, and a cover glass for fixing the light source and the image forming lens at respective predetermined positions in a housing, wherein an air layer is present between the contact glass and the cover glass.
Abstract:
An image sensor has a supporting member for integrally supporting a reading system including illuminating means for illuminating an original document, a photoelectrically converting means and imaging means for imaging light reflected by the surface of the original document onto the photoelectrically converting means, and has a member disposed on the side surface of the supporting member. The image sensor has two or more substantially independent spaces formed in the supporting member. The illuminating means, the imaging means and the photoelectrically converting means are accommodated in one of the spaces.
Abstract:
An image reading apparatus includes a sensor section which includes a color line sensor which reads a color image and a monochrome line sensor which reads a monochrome image provided in parallel with and a specific distance away from the color line sensor, an input section which inputs a document image to the color line sensor and the monochrome line sensor, and a control section which, when reading an image from a document by use of the input section, starts the reading of an image by the color line sensor and the reading of an image by the monochrome line sensor with the same timing.
Abstract:
An image sensor controller and methods achieve faster image reading speeds by controlling the frequency of image sensor transfer clocks φ1, φ2 in accordance with the particular output period. Such an image sensor controller includes a drive controller that supplies to a transfer section of the image sensor transfer clocks φ1, φ2 whose clock frequency during dummy pixel output periods is faster than it is during an effective pixel output period, or whose clock frequency during non-reading pixel output periods is faster than it is during a reading pixel output period. A pattern selector selects among clock patterns in a table for setting φ1, φ2 according to the output periods of the image sensor. Even when the clock frequency of φ1, φ2 changes, a transfer clock ADCK signal can be supplied at a constant clock frequency to an A/D converter.
Abstract:
There is disclosed a recording sheet for use in an image recording apparatus which forms an image by a recording head, the recording sheet has a pattern for measurement in which a correction amount for correction of a positional shift of a recorded dot recorded by the recording head is measurable based on a positional relationship with an image for measurement formed by the recording head, and accordingly it is possible to correct arrangement of recorded dots and to record an image without any distortion.
Abstract:
A system for generating a warped contone image that compensates for beam scan trajectory distortions. The system includes an image buffer for storing a portion of a received contone image. An interpolation coefficient generator provides interpolation coefficients associated with a warped pixel within the warped contone image in response to an input identifying the warped pixel. A pixel interpolator is coupled to the image buffer and the interpolation coefficient generator and provides an output signal that identifies the warped pixel within the warped contone image. The pixel interpolator further retrieves pixels from the contone image stored in the image buffer using the interpolation coefficients and generates the warped pixel by combining the retrieved pixels into a single pixel value.
Abstract:
The invention concerns an image forming apparatus provided with an automatic writing-position determining device for forming an image always at a correct position on the recording material. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming section to form an image by writing each of scanning lines, an end position detecting section to detect an end position of a recording material in a direction orthogonal to a conveyance direction of the recording material, and a selecting section to select either an automatic writing-position determining mode or a predetermined writing-position determining mode. When the selecting section selects the automatic writing-position determining mode, the image forming section commences an image writing action from a writing start position determined on the basis of a detected result of the end position detecting device. When the selecting section selects the predetermined writing-position determining mode, the image forming section commences the image writing action from a predetermined writing start position set in advance.
Abstract:
An image reading apparatus includes: a document holder on which a document is placed; a document positioning member, wherein the document is positioned on the document holder according to the document positioning member; an image reading device for reading an image of the document positioned on the document holder; and a correcting device for correcting an inclination of the image read by the image reading device according to an inclination of the document positioning member. The inclination of the document positioning member is an inclination on the document holder for a primary scanning direction.
Abstract:
A correction method of a document inclination angle includes the steps of: first detecting an edge of a document; second detecting an inclination amount of the document corresponding to an inclination angle according to a detected result of the edge of the document. The inclination angle represents an inclination angle of the edge of the document with respect to a first reference direction and a second reference direction perpendicular to the first reference direction. The correction method further includes correcting the inclination angle of image data of the document with respect to the first and second reference directions. The step of the correcting includes a shift processing conducting a first shift processing in which the image data are shifted to one of the first and second reference directions according to the inclination amount and conducting a second shift processing in which the image data are shifted to the other of the first and second reference directions according to the inclination amount.