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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 1996
Filed:
Mar. 05, 1993
Tetsuo Iyoda, Kanagawa, JP;
Naosuke Ino, Kanagawa, JP;
Hajime Sugino, Kanagawa, JP;
Kazuhisa Ando, Kanagawa, JP;
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image reading apparatus for obtaining a digital image having gradation of binary-level or multi level in a computer, a word processor, a digital copying machine, or like apparatus. The image reading apparatus includes an imaging device, an optical unit located for exposing the imaging device and capable of moving in two directions perpendicular to each other, a reading operation control unit for controlling a first reading operation in which whole information of the original image is read, and a second reading operation in which division image information in division areas of the original image is read, a resolution setting unit for setting a resolution in the second reading operation, and a data processing unit for connecting a plurality of division image information sets which are read in a plural number of times of the second reading operations, as a front view image information on the original image.