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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:
Jan. 23, 2007
Filed:
May. 08, 2002
Applicant:
Hironobu Machida, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Hironobu Machida, Tokyo, JP;
Assignees:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/21 (2006.01); H04N 1/23 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Detection of the direction of an original is effected not at the time of scanning the original, but at the time of standby for the start of printing. Thereby, the scanning performance is prevented from deteriorating.