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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2005
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2000
Tsuyoshi Mizubata, Tokyo, JP;
Masanobu Kawano, Tokyo, JP;
Kiyoshi Hata, Tokyo, JP;
Koji Ogino, Yamanashi-ken, JP;
Kazuhide Sano, Yamanashi-ken, JP;
Sei Takahashi, Yamanashi-ken, JP;
Ichitaro Kubota, Yamanashi-ken, JP;
Tsuyoshi Mizubata, Tokyo, JP;
Masanobu Kawano, Tokyo, JP;
Kiyoshi Hata, Tokyo, JP;
Koji Ogino, Yamanashi-ken, JP;
Kazuhide Sano, Yamanashi-ken, JP;
Sei Takahashi, Yamanashi-ken, JP;
Ichitaro Kubota, Yamanashi-ken, JP;
Konica Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Nisca Corporation, Yamanashi, JP;
Abstract
A document reading apparatus and method are provided for outputting an image faithful to a document as possible even if the document is accidentally fed in an oblique fashion on the way of a sheet feeding path. For this purpose, a plurality of document end detecting sensors Sto Sare disposed on the way of the sheet feeding path, and further, a reading controllercalculates a skew quantity θ of the document with respect to the sheet feeding pathbased on a signal output from the document end detecting sensor, thereby adjusting a document reading timing in accordance with the skew quantity.