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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2012
Applicants:
Ikuo Murata, Ishikawa, JP;
Naofumi Kado, Ishikawa, JP;
Hiroyuki Kameda, Ishikawa, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
PFU Limited, Ishikawa, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An overhead image-reading apparatus includes a one-dimensional image sensor having imaging elements arranged in parallel to each other and is configured to change an angle between an optical axis of a light source and a medium to be read during reading of the medium, and the apparatus includes a correcting unit that corrects distortion in a main-scanning direction in read image data of the medium read by the apparatus.