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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:
Jan. 26, 1988
Filed:
Apr. 28, 1986
Applicant:
Inventor:
Masaaki Kogure, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
250227 ; 358200 ;
Abstract
An image reading device applies to a photoelectric transducer optical image data which are produced by scanning a document and samples the image data on a pixel basis to read images on the document. The device includes a fiber optic bundle comprising a plurality of optical fibers which are bound together such that their light inlet ends and light outlet ends are configured differently from each other. Optical image data from the document are propagated through the fiber optic bundle to the photoelectric transducer.