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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2005
Applicants:
Naho Kurokawa, Inagi, JP;
Tsuyoshi Yamauchi, Yokohama, JP;
Inventors:
Naho Kurokawa, Inagi, JP;
Tsuyoshi Yamauchi, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/04 (2006.01); G06K 1/00 (2006.01); B41J 2/355 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
To provide a technology which facilitates positioning of a document to a document table even in a condition of a vertically placed image reading apparatus and by which operability was improved. It is configured in such a manner that, in case that a document coverwas opened to an apparatus main bodyin the vertically placed condition, (a distance c between a document table glassof an apparatus main bodyand an end portionof a lowermost portion of a press-contact sheet)<(a step (a height from the document table glass) d of a step) is realized.