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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 1999
Filed:
Jul. 02, 1996
Shokyo Koh, Kawasaki, JP;
Akiyoshi Kimura, Kashiwa, JP;
Yoshiyuki Suzuki, Yokohama, JP;
Tadashi Suzuki, Tokyo, JP;
Shinichi Nakamura, Kawasaki, JP;
Yoshihiko Suzuki, Toride, JP;
Minoru Nada, Kashiwa, JP;
Satoru Kutsuwada, Yokohama, JP;
Kenji Kobayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Satoshi Kaneko, Kawasaki, JP;
Norifumi Miyake, Tokyo, JP;
Hirohiko Tashiro, Yokohama, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An original reading apparatus includes an original feeding unit for feeding the front and back sides of two-side originals in succession to a reading position, a reader unit for reading the original in the reading position, a memory unit for storing the image data of the original read by the reader unit, a read-out unit adapted to read the image data from the memory unit in the continuous order of pages, in case of reading a bundle of originals wherein the pages are so arranged that a side of the original bears the images of N-th and first pages and the other side of the original bears the images of (N-1)-th and second pages, and an output unit for successively outputting or transmitting the image data read by the read-out unit.