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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2008
Applicant:
Satoshi Tada, Nishitokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Satoshi Tada, Nishitokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/32 (2006.01); H04N 1/41 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An image reading apparatus has an image sensor in which a plurality of sensor arrays for reading a document image are connected into a line, and parallel-output image data. In the image reading apparatus, of image data output from each sensor array, image data of a pixel at one end and image data of the remaining pixels are compressed by different compression methods. The compressed data of one line are decompressed by a set method at the timing when the number of pixels reaches a preset number of pixels.