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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:
Jul. 07, 1992
Filed:
Nov. 17, 1989
Applicant:
Inventor:
Teruhiko Uno, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358448 ; 358453 ; 358462 ;
Abstract
An image reading apparatus for reading image formed on a document. The apparatus includes a scanner for scanning the image and forming image data, a driver for driving the scanner, a data processor for processing the image data and outputting information generated from the image data, a memory storing the output information from the data processor and a controller for setting a large thinning rate to be used by the data processor at a rough reading operation.