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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 1980
Filed:
Aug. 22, 1978
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358280 ; 3401 / ; 358213 ; 358282 ;
Abstract
An optical image reading apparatus comprises a solid state image sensor having a plurality of blocks, means for generating video signals correponding to an object to be read out by the solid state image sensor, means for determining respective mean values of the video signals concerning the blocks, means for storing the mean values in digital information, means for reading out the stored mean value and converting the digital information to analog information, and means for determining a corrected slice level in each of the blocks.