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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 26, 1992
John D. Vala, Plymouth, MI (US);
Clive E. Catchpole, Birmingham, MI (US);
Johan P. Bakker, West Bloomfield, MI (US);
Robert T. Rourke, Troy, MI (US);
Paul Stolis, Canton, MI (US);
Gary B. Copenhaver, Canton, MI (US);
David J. Valice, Troy, MI (US);
David J. Concannon, Farmington Hill, MI (US);
Unisys Corporation, Blue Bell, PA (US);
Abstract
In a document processing array, an imaging/illumination arrangement for illuminating and imaging the documents at one or several imaging-sites as they are rapidly transported there-past, each site having, as its illumination source, a hollow Lambertian integrating cylinder housing lamps which project essentially all their light onto the inner cylinder walls to be reflected/diffused thereby in Lambertian fashion and sent to the imaging site(s).