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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 17, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Sung-Wook Kang, Kyonggi-do, KR;
Assignee:
SamSung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ; G03G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358497 ; 358496 ; 358498 ; 399367 ;
Abstract
A flat bed scanner apparatus for scanning sheets with a stacked-sheet feeder and a flat bed cover separated from one another. The flat bed scanner apparatus includes a flat bed and a flat bed cover to be used for scanning an individual sheet, a stacked-sheet feeder separate from the flat bed cover for feeding a plurality of sheets seriatim, and a scanning module installed inside the flat bed scanner apparatus, for selectively scanning a sheet on the flat bed and a sheet from the stacked-sheet feeder by varying an optical path of light illuminating the sheets.