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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2005
Filed:
Feb. 13, 2001
Applicant:
Masami Miyajima, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Masami Miyajima, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N001/00 ; G06F013/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A digital image reading apparatus is provided, which apparatus includes a reading part for optically reading an image of a document to output digital image data, a first setting part for setting a reading rate in a given scanning direction to a desired value, an image memory for temporarily storing the image data, a second setting part for setting parameters related to reading the image of the document based on communication with an external apparatus, and a computation part for computing a total amount of the image data from the parameters, wherein the first setting part sets the reading rate based on the total amount of the image data.