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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 22, 1997
Yoshiharu Itano, Kyoto, JP;
Yoshihiro Kishida, Kyoto, JP;
Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co,. Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
A small-sized flatbed scanning type image reading apparatus for reading a wide-range image at high resolution is provided. An optical reading system (LU) is movable also in a main scanning direction (X) for high-resolution wide-range image reading. The optical reading system (LU) scans the image with the width of a section (SS,) to be read of elongated rectangular configuration in a subscanning direction (Y), and then is shifted in the main scanning direction to scan the image with the width of the next section (SS,) to be read. The remaining section (SS,) to be read is similarly scanned. The images of these three sections are combined together in consideration for the influences of overlap parts (OL,, OL,) of the sections.