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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:
May. 15, 1990
Filed:
Jan. 23, 1987
Applicant:
Inventors:
Hirofumi Iwamoto, Machida, JP;
Tatsundo Kawai, Hiratsuka, JP;
Makoto Ogura, Hiratsuka, JP;
Katsumi Nakagawa, Kawasaki, JP;
Shinichi Seitoh, Atsugi, JP;
Noriyuki Kaifu, Hiratsuka, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
2505781 ; 358483 ;
Abstract
An image reading apparatus in which a plurality of light sources are provided and the lights emitted from the light sources are incident on to photoelectric converting means from an object to be read, thereby reading an image of the object; and dividing the light sources into a plurality of blocks, for sequentially divisionally lighting on the light sources every block, and for lighting on, in a pulse-like manner, the light sources of the blocks which are not divisionally lit on.