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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:
Aug. 15, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2001
Applicant:
Shinya Matsuda, Takarazuka, JP;
Inventor:
Shinya Matsuda, Takarazuka, JP;
Assignee:
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/04 (2006.01); H04N 1/387 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The purpose of obtaining a high resolution image with fewer number of image sensings in an image input device which allocates a planar object such as a document or the like into a plurality of areas for image sensing, and combines the obtained image data for output to a printer or display device or the like. An image reading device using an area sensor as an image sensing elementwhich is stationary in an image sensing unitfacing the center of a documenton a tableand a taking lensmoves parallel to the documentand the image sensing elementto read the images of allocated sections A˜I of the document