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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 1999
Filed:
Nov. 20, 1996
Hiroshi Miura, Toyohashi, JP;
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
In an image reading method which executes a prescan to obtain optimum reading parameters for a main scan prior to a main scan for reading a document image, a document image is read by illuminating the document image by a specific exposure amount for the prescan and reading the document thereby, detecting the density of the document, and determining the exposure amount for illuminating said document in a main scan in accordance with the detected document density, and determining a wait time to delay the start of the main scan in accordance with the determined exposure amount of the main scan, then starting the reading of the document in a main scan after waiting the determined wait period.