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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:
Jul. 11, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 09, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Keiji Kusumoto, Toyokawa, JP;
Assignee:
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358498 ; 358496 ; 358497 ;
Abstract
During the time period since a document placed at a multi-document tray is transported by a roller pair and has its images on the front surface read until the roller pair is reversed to start reading the back surface of the document, a document placed at a single feed tray is transported by another roller pair for interrupt reading of the document. The interrupt reading can be achieved without interrupting the transportation of the current document and replacing the document.