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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2020
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Kazushi Shumiya, Konan, JP;
Kentaro Aoyama, Nagoya, JP;
Seiya Sato, Yokkaichi, JP;
Kunihiro Amano, Kitanagoya, JP;
Jie Zheng, Nagoya, JP;
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
A reading apparatus, having a document placement plate, a reader, a driving device, a cover, and a controller, is provided. The cover includes an alignment part and a protrusive part. The protrusive part includes an uneven surface and first and second edges forming outer edges of the uneven surface extending in a main scanning direction and in a sub-scanning direction, respectively. The controller is configured control the driving device to move the reader in the sub-scanning direction and the reader while being moved to read the protrusive part, and detect the first edge and the second edge in image data of the protrusive part read by the reader based on an image of the uneven surface and determine a reading range for the reader in the document placement plate based on positions of the first edge and the second edge.