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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2012
Filed:
May. 28, 2008
Dana S. Smith, Dana Point, CA (US);
Dana S. Smith, Dana Point, CA (US);
Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc., Camas, WA (US);
Abstract
An imaging device has an adjustable imaging surface that can be readily enlarged by a user from a first size to a second size and reduced by the user from the second size to the first size to meet imaging requirements. The imaging device thus permits imaging of larger documents than its desktop footprint would conventionally support. For example, when a user of such an imaging device has a full sheet document that requires flatbed scanning, the user can temporarily enlarge the imaging surface from half sheet size to full sheet size and scan the document. Once the user has scanned the document, the user can reduce the imaging surface from the full sheet size to the half sheet size to reduce the desktop footprint of the imaging device.