Hitachi, Ltd.

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation

Eizou Ebisui

Hideaki Yamamoto

Toshihisa Tsukada

Toru Baji

Tatsuki Inuzuka

Keisuke Nakashima

Yasuyuki Kojima

Shinichi Shinoda

Shogo Matsumoto

Hisashi Matsumoto

Yasunori Iwafuji

Tadashi Tamaoki

Toru Takei

Hiroshi Kawamura

Katsubumi Ouchi

Hideki Muroya

Hideo Nakazawa

Takeshi Kobayashi

Tomoe Sasayama

Naoki Kinoshita

Norikazu Takahashi

Atuhiko Urusihara

Kenji Yokoi

Yuji Izawa

Hisao Ohta

Kyoichi Nomura

A facsimile apparatus has a transparent plate on which a document may be located. The document is then scanned by a scanner which includes electronic solid state light generation means e.g. LEDs which illuminate the document, with the light reflected from the document being detected by a detector. An electronic signal corresponding to an image of the document may then be transmitted to a remote location. Alternately, the facsimile apparatus may be used to copy the document. Cut paper sheets are withdrawn from storage and an image printed thereon by a heat transfer system in which a film of ink is selectively heated. Paper on which an image has been printed is then received on the upper surface of the storage. The facsimile apparatus may also have a document transporter for moving a document past the scanner with the scanner fixed.

Facsimile apparatus and method for processing a fixed document

An optical image sensor apparatus in which a plurality of photosensors arrayed in a primary scanning direction are scanned to produce readout signals. The plurality of photosensors are classified into a number of groups each including a predetermined number of the photosensors, wherein those photosensors occupying equivalently the same position in the different groups are combined in common. The outputs of the photosensors are sequentially and selectively scanned on a group basis to produce readout signal for each of the groups. To provide a scanning readout operation at an increased speed, an integrating circuit is provided for each of the photosensors exchangeably for each group. The outputs of all the photosensors belonging to a given one of the group are simultaneously supplied to the respective integrating circuits. The readout signal output is obtained by scanning sequentially the outputs of the integrating circuits.

Optical image sensor apparatus with grouped photosensors connected in

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Yokohama, Japan

Eizou Ebisui