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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 1994
Filed:
Nov. 29, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
William D Turner, San Marino, CA (US);
Assignee:
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
257 81 ; 257 84 ; 257 98 ; 257432 ; 257466 ; 257443 ; 359831 ; 25037014 ; 2502081 ;
Abstract
The present invention is a novel book scanner that employs 2-dimensional array detectors attached, either rigidly or rotatably, at a common edge and disposed in a wedge shaped manner. The opposite edges of the arrays are housed in a base portion. The base portion additionally supports backlight to provide the necessary illumination of the book pages and the read-out electronics which output the image data stored in the detectors to other processing units that may use such data.