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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:
Jun. 17, 1997
Filed:
Jul. 24, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Mita Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka-fu, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ; H04N / ; G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358482 ; 358483 ; 358494 ; 358449 ; 358468 ; 358474 ; 382286 ; 382317 ;
Abstract
An image reading device includes a photoelectric conversion array of a number of photoelectric conversion elements arranged in a first direction; and a scanner which scans photoelectric conversion elements in the first direction, the scanner having: a first scanning mode of scanning respective photoelectric conversion elements of two or more primary regions defined in the photoelectric conversion array in parallel; and a second scanning mode of scanning respective photoelectric conversion elements of two or more secondary regions defined in a particular primary region in parallel, and a switch which switches over the first and second scanning modes.