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Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2020

Filed:

Jun. 27, 2019
Applicant:

Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;

Inventor:

Gin Yoshidome, San Ramon, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/0464 (2013.01); H04N 1/00413 (2013.01); H04N 1/00474 (2013.01); H04N 1/00588 (2013.01); H04N 1/00602 (2013.01); H04N 1/00649 (2013.01); H04N 1/00689 (2013.01); H04N 1/00702 (2013.01); H04N 1/00734 (2013.01); H04N 1/00748 (2013.01); H04N 2201/0094 (2013.01);
Abstract

Note sheets, having opposite free and adhesive edges, removably attached to documents are individuated and scanned. A document-edge bearing device shifts away from a document to allow the document's edge nearest its note sheet's free edge to droop under its own weight and open a free-edge-document gap. A scanning control unit situates into the gap a note-wedging guide component of a pivotal scanning device carried on a note-targeting platform, and having a note-sheet scanner and rollers for moving a removable note sheet across the scanner, both to peel the note sheet off its document, and to scan the note sheet. In a note-sheet presence/position detecting mechanism, document-edge pressing sliders wrinkle a document, and a control-linked sensor detects a shading-difference-originating gap between the free edge of any removable note sheet, and the document to which it is attached, to determine physical presence and document-relative position of the note sheet.


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