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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2017
Filed:
May. 20, 2016
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Ikutaro Mitsutake, Utsunomiya, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image reading apparatus according to the present invention is an image reading apparatus including a reading unit that illuminates an original and reads an image of the original, wherein the apparatus can execute a first mode of reading the image of the moving original while the reading unit is kept stationary, and a second mode of reading the image of the stationary original while moving the reading unit, the apparatus further includes a light condensing unit that refracts a light flux from the reading unit and condenses the light flux on the original in the first mode, and the light flux from the reading unit incidents on the original without passing through the light condensing unit in the second mode.