Abstract:
An image reading apparatus includes a platen, a copyholder pressed against a reading surface of a document placed on the platen, and a placing part movably provided, on which a non-pressed portion of the document that is not pressed by the copyholder is placed.
Abstract:
An image capturing system includes an image capturing unit configured to photograph the medium on a medium installation face, a lighting configured to irradiate the medium installation face, a lighting control unit configured to control the lighting, and a non-readable area determining unit configured to determine whether there is a non-readable area from which the image capturing unit is unable to read information of the medium due to reflected light of the lighting. The non-readable area is determined based on an image acquired by photographing the medium in a turned-on state of the lighting. When the non-readable area determining unit determines that there is the non-readable area, the medium is photographed in different lighting states set by the lighting control unit, and among the image data generated in photographing process, image data corresponding to the medium is generated by synthesizing areas except an area corresponding to the non-readable area.
Abstract:
Provided are an image processing apparatus, a control method, and a control program for further shortening the time required for recognition processing. An image processing apparatus includes, an operation module, a display module, an imaging module to successively generate an input image, an evaluation point calculation module to calculate, for each of the successively generated input images, an evaluation point for each of a plurality of character candidates for a character in each input image, and a character recognition module to recognize, when a character candidate whose degree of certainty based on the plurality of evaluation points calculated for each of the successively generated input images is equal to or greater than a threshold value is present, the character candidate as a character in the input image. The character recognition module terminates processing of calculating the evaluation point, even when a character candidate having the degree of certainty equal to or greater than the threshold value is not present, in a case where a predetermined condition is satisfied since processing of calculating the evaluation point starts, displays, on the display module, the plurality of character candidates in order based on the evaluation point, and sets, when one of character candidates displayed on the display module is designated by a user with the operation module, the designated character candidate as a character in the input image.
Abstract:
An image reading apparatus includes a platen, a copyholder configured to rotate around a rotary axis, and a reader configured to read a reading surface pressed against the copyholder, of a document placed on the platen. The reader is supported by the copyholder to be able to move in a direction not parallel to the rotary axis.
Abstract:
An image capturing system to capture an image of an object from various directions. The system includes a mobile terminal and an image-capturing assist device. The mobile terminal includes an image capturing unit, and a terminal-equipment controller to control the mobile terminal. The image-capturing assist device includes a turntable including a placing table to place the object thereon, a housing rotatably supporting the placing table, an actuator to rotate the placing table, and a turntable-equipment controller to control the turntable, and a mobile-terminal placing table to place the mobile terminal such that the image capturing unit and the object on the placing table face each other. The mobile terminal and the image-capturing assist device perform communication therebetween, and the terminal-equipment controller controls the actuator when starting image capturing to intermittently or continuously photograph the object on the placing table, sequentially when the placing table is rotating.
Abstract:
An image reading apparatus includes a casing configured to cut off ambient light and have a casing-opening portion at the bottom, an image capturing unit configured to perform image capturing of a medium that is exposed to an inside of the casing in the casing-opening portion, a plurality of light sources configured to be arranged on the inside of the casing and emit light to different areas on horizontal plane in the casing-opening portion, a control unit configured to control at least the image capturing unit and the plurality of light sources, and an attachment configured to be detachably attached to the bottom of the casing. The attachment surrounds the casing-opening portion in a state in which the attachment is attached to the casing and cuts off the ambient light together with the casing in a state in which the bottom is placed on the medium.
Abstract:
An image capturing system includes an image capturing unit to photograph a medium placed on a medium installation face, a lighting unit disposed in a top unit to irradiate the medium installation face, a lighting control unit to perform driving control of the lighting unit, a scan instruction unit to issue an instruction to perform scanning to photograph the medium and to generate image data of the medium, and a non-readable area determining unit to determine whether or not there is a non-readable area based on an image of the medium obtained by photographing the medium with in a turned-on state of the lighting unit. When there is the non-readable area, the scanning is performed by turning off the lighting unit when the lighting unit was in a turned-on state, and when there is not the non-readable area, the scanning is performed in the turned-on state of the lighting unit.
Abstract:
In an image capturing system, a mounting stand includes a base disposed on a medium setting surface on which a medium serving as a reading target is set, an arm extending upward from the base, a top unit extending from the arm in such a manner that the top unit faces the medium setting surface, and a placement surface that is provided to the top unit and on which a smartphone (imaging unit) is placed at a position allowing the smartphone to image the medium set on the medium setting surface. The base, the arm, and the top unit are integrally fixed with each other.
Abstract:
A lighting device includes a base unit arranged on a medium installation face on which a medium is disposed, an arm unit extending upwardly from the base unit, a top unit extending from the arm unit so as to face the medium installation face, a mounting face disposed on the top unit to mount an image capturing unit at a position capable of photographing the medium on the medium installation face, a lighting disposed in the top unit to irradiate the medium installation face, and a lighting control unit configured to adjust an amount of light of the lighting. The lighting control unit sets the amount of light of the lighting to a maximum at the time of photographing and, after the photographing, returns the amount of light to that before the photographing.
Abstract:
An image reading apparatus includes a casing that blocks ambient light and has an opening portion in a bottom surface, an image capturing unit that captures an image of a medium exposed to an internal portion of the casing in the opening portion, and a plurality of light sources that are arranged on the internal portion of the casing and irradiate light toward the opening portion. The plurality of light sources irradiate light to different areas on a plane in the opening portion.