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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2009
Filed:
May. 24, 2004
Kohji Matsuda, Tokyo, JP;
Kohji Matsuda, Tokyo, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A digital copying device, which serves as an image reading apparatus for improving processing speed by adjusting the timing of various operations when reading is performed using a sheet-through system, causes a first traveling body to move beneath a white reference plate in order to read the white reference plate, and then performs an ADF shading operation to move the first traveling body beneath a sheet-through contact glass. The sheet-through contact glass is then subjected to a dirt detection operation by reading a dirt detection reference plate, whereupon an original is conveyed onto the sheet-through contact glass by an ADF to perform a sheet-through reading operation whereby an image of the original is read. When a sheet-through reading operation is to be performed, the sheet-through reading operation is started following the reception of an image reading request and after the elapse of a time (T=Ts+Tl−Td) obtained by subtracting a time Td, which extends from the beginning of the sheet-through reading operation to the point at which the tip of the original reaches a sheet-through reading position, from the sum of a time Ts required for the ADF shading operation and a time Tl required for the dirt detection operation.