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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2023
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2020
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Miki Sugano, Tokyo, JP;
Masako Asamura, Tokyo, JP;
Kohei Kurihara, Tokyo, JP;
Kosaku Yamagata, Tokyo, JP;
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
There are provided a line sensor () including two first sensor pixel rows () and a second sensor pixel row (); an image obtaining unit () to obtain, from electrical signals obtained by scanning an original in a sub-scanning direction with the two first sensor pixel rows (), two first read image data items, and obtain, from electrical signals obtained by scanning the original in the sub-scanning direction with the second sensor pixel row (), a second read image data item; and an image processor () to incorporate one or more pixel data items of one or more pixels included in an interval between the two first sensor pixel rows () out of the second read image data item into the two first read image data items, thereby generating a line image data item in which the one or more pixels in the interval are not vacant.