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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:
Sep. 24, 1991
Filed:
Jun. 22, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358401 ; 358400 ; 358909 ; 358300 ;
Abstract
An electronic copying machine comprises an optical image forming system for forming an optical image of a remote surface on an image plane, and an image sensor disposed in the image plane and transversely movable in the image plane for scanning the optical image and converting the image into image signals. A scanning area defining device defines the height of the image sensor so as to scan the image plane according to the height of the remote surface. An image printing unit including a printing head is driven according to the image signals for printing an image on paper.