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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 29, 1995
Yu Tojo, Kanagawa, JP;
Takahiro Hideshima, Kanagawa, JP;
Akira Ichizuka, Kanagawa, JP;
Kazuteru Kowada, Kanagawa, JP;
Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
An image is read by moving a line sensor relative to the image in a subsidiary scanning direction perpendicular to the direction of a pixels array of the line sensor. An image processor receives image signals from the sensor and produces an output image magnified relative to the image in accordance with a magnification ratio. The magnification ratio falls into one of n contiguous magnification ratio ranges between a reference magnification ratio and a minimum magnification ratio. The moving speed of the sensor relative to the image is set as a function of the magnification ratio such that, within each magnification ratio range i, for i=2 to n, the moving speed of the sensor decreases from a maximum speed at a lowest magnification ratio in the magnification ratio range to the maximum speed decreased by 1/i at a highest magnification ratio in the magnification ratio range, and, for i=1, the moving speed of the sensor decreases from the maximum speed at a lowest magnification ratio in the magnification ratio range to a reference speed at a highest magnification ratio in the magnification ratio range.