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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 2011
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2007
Takahiro Ikeno, Seto, JP;
Shingo Fujiwara, Nagoya, JP;
Tetsuya Kato, Chiryu, JP;
Hirofumi Oguri, Nagoya, JP;
Takahiro Ikeno, Seto, JP;
Shingo Fujiwara, Nagoya, JP;
Tetsuya Kato, Chiryu, JP;
Hirofumi Oguri, Nagoya, JP;
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Abstract
An aspect of the invention provides an image reading apparatus including: first and second light emitters that emit lights; a light guide unit that guides the lights emitted from the first and second light emitters to irradiate a document with the light; a photoelectric conversion unit that converts reflected light from the document into an image signal; and a control unit that controls the first light emitter to emit light for a first time period in a unit time period and controls the second light emitter to emit light for a second time period misaligned from the first time period in the unit time period.