Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Koichi Ichihara

Kazuhiro Ando

Yukio Noguchi

Shigefumi Soga

Fumihiro Kitahara

Kazuhiko Nakaya

Youji Mouri

Hisatsugu Niki

An image reading apparatus includes a line sensor for reading an image of an original, a scanning optical system that has a light source and scans the original, a reference reflection member provided in such a position as to reflect a light emitted from the light source, a buffer memory for storing data of the image, an intermittent reading part interrupting and restarting scanning performed by the scanning optical system based on a residual storage capacity of the buffer memory, and a light amount variation correction part correcting a variation in an amount of light of the light source during an interruption of the scanning based on an amount of reflected light from the reference reflection member.

Image reading apparatus and copier

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Kanagawa, Japan

Koichi Ichihara