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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2008
Filed:
Nov. 25, 2003
Hideyuki Terashima, Chiba-ken, JP;
Akio Okubo, Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Awai, Chiba-ken, JP;
Yoshiaki Suzuki, Chiba-ken, JP;
Hideyuki Terashima, Chiba-ken, JP;
Akio Okubo, Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Awai, Chiba-ken, JP;
Yoshiaki Suzuki, Chiba-ken, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming and reading apparatus includes an image forming portion for forming an image on a fed recording sheet and an image reading portion for reading the image of a fed document. At least a portion of the feeding path of the recording sheet is common to at least a portion of the feeding path of the document, and the image reading portion can be set to a first position moved from the common feeding path and to a second position at which the image of the document that is fed through the common feeding path is read, and a reading position at which the image is read by the image reading portion is located downstream of the image forming portion in a recording sheet feeding direction.