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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2024

Filed:

Dec. 15, 2022
Applicant:

Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Sakai, JP;

Inventor:

Kazuma Ogawa, Sakai, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/04 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/00816 (2013.01); H04N 1/00822 (2013.01);
Abstract

An image forming apparatus includes a light transmitting member provided at a reading position set in a conveyance path and an opposite plate opposed thereto, and a document being conveyed passes between this opposite plate and the light transmitting member. On an opposing surface of the opposite plate to the light transmitting member, a low brightness area, for example, like a gray color and a high brightness area, for example, like a white color, having a higher brightness than the low brightness area are formed adjacent to each other in a conveyance direction of the document. Then, an image reader sets a home position of a scanning unit to a first position or a second position corresponding to either the low brightness area or the high brightness area to read the document passing through the reading position.


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