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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 09, 2007
Applicant:
Osamu Inage, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Osamu Inage, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/23 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An image processor includes a reading unit that moves a scanning optical system toward a reference white sheet to read the reference white sheet from a direction along which the scanning optical system returns to the carried document reading glass before reading one sheet of a document mounted on a carried document reading glass by an automatic document feeding unit in a sheet document reading mode of forming an image of the document carried by the automatic document feeding unit by an image sensor through the scanning optical system facing the carried document reading glass.