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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:
Apr. 22, 2008
Filed:
May. 27, 2003
Applicants:
Yoshiro Ishikawa, Takatsuki, JP;
Hirotaka Chiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Tsugio Noda, Kawasaki, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An image reader, detachably attached to an electronic apparatus, for functionally expanding the electronic apparatus and for reading an image on a medium, includes an interface connectible to and disconnectible from the electronic apparatus a housing having an image-reading surface that faces the medium, a medium detecting part, provided on the image-reading surface, for detecting the medium, and an image reading part, provided on the image-reading surface and driven based on a detection result by the medium detecting part, for reading the image on the medium.