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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 22, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Gururaj Rao, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41B / ; B41J / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358-118 ;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus including scanner section for reading an image of documents and an image of a separation sheet, a circuit for recognizing the image of the separation sheet from the image of the documents, a determining circuit for determining a processing for the image of the documents based on the image of the separation sheet, an operation panel for receiving a processing instruction for the image of the documents, and a processing circuit for processing the image of the documents based on the separation sheet and the processing instruction.