Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Junichiro Honda

Eiji Kitsutaka

Four photo-sensor blocks, for instance, are arrayed in series in a main scan direction within a sensor unit. In each photo-sensor block, 1280 photo sensors, for instance, are arrayed linearly. The adjacent photo-sensor blocks are placed so that they read image data in reverse directions with each other. The read-out image data are once stored in a buffer, and re-arrayed in the order corresponding to the main scan direction of the document before the data are read out from the buffer.

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Kasuga, Japan

Junichiro Honda