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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 13, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Yukitoshi Takeuchi, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/04 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/04 ;
Abstract
An image reading apparatus is disclosed which has the function of optically reading a transparent document while causing a transparent-document illuminating light source to move along the document. The apparatus has a correcting device for correcting the relative position between the transparent-document illuminating light source and a scanning unit located when document reading is started. It is thus possible to substantially maintain a light quantity at the reading lines while a document-reading operation is performed.