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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 29, 2016
Tomonori Tanaka, Kanagawa, JP;
Noriyuki Terao, Miyagi, JP;
Yoshiaki Irino, Kanagawa, JP;
Toru Harada, Kanagawa, JP;
Hideaki Yamamoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Hirokazu Takenaka, Kanagawa, JP;
Satoshi Sawaguchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Nozomi Imae, Kanagawa, JP;
Daisuke Bessho, Kanagawa, JP;
Kensuke Masuda, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroyuki Satoh, Kanagawa, JP;
Makoto Shohara, Tokyo, JP;
Shusaku Takasu, Kanagawa, JP;
Tomonori Tanaka, Kanagawa, JP;
Noriyuki Terao, Miyagi, JP;
Yoshiaki Irino, Kanagawa, JP;
Toru Harada, Kanagawa, JP;
Hideaki Yamamoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Hirokazu Takenaka, Kanagawa, JP;
Satoshi Sawaguchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Nozomi Imae, Kanagawa, JP;
Daisuke Bessho, Kanagawa, JP;
Kensuke Masuda, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroyuki Satoh, Kanagawa, JP;
Makoto Shohara, Tokyo, JP;
Shusaku Takasu, Kanagawa, JP;
RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image capturing apparatus includes image capturing devices; page memories for the image capturing devices, respectively, each page memory storing a piece of image data output from the corresponding image capturing device; a page-memory read unit configured to read pieces of image data stored in the page memories line by line in a time division manner; an image processing unit configured to perform predetermined image processing on the pieces of image data read from the page memories for the image capturing devices line by line in the time division manner; and a write monitoring unit configured to monitor write states of the pieces of image data that are output from the image capturing devices and written into the page memories, and control the page-memory read unit to start reading the pieces of image data from the page memories.