Abstract: A reading apparatus includes: a document platen on which a document is placed; a reading portion configured to read a document placed on the document platen; a cover that is openable and closable between a first position at which the document platen is covered and a second position at which the document is uncovered; and a frame member including a first inclination portion and a second inclination portion, configured to constitute at least a part of an outer frame of the document platen, the first inclination portion being adjacent to the document platen and higher with an increasing distance from the document platen, and the second inclination portion being arranged farther away from the document platen than the first inclination portion and higher with an increasing distance from the document platen.

Abstract: A reading apparatus includes: a document platen on which a document is placed; a reading portion configured to read a document placed on the document platen; a cover that is openable and closable between a first position at which the document platen is covered and a second position at which the document is uncovered; and a frame member including a first inclination portion and a second inclination portion, configured to constitute at least a part of an outer frame of the document platen, the first inclination portion being adjacent to the document platen and higher with an increasing distance from the document platen, and the second inclination portion being arranged farther away from the document platen than the first inclination portion and higher with an increasing distance from the document platen.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes a body including an attachment member for attachment, a ring-shaped rotating member rotatable relative to the body, and an imaging unit configured to capture an image. An imaging angle of view as an imaging parameter is changed by rotating the rotating member.

Abstract: A data output circuit includes a ground terminal, a power supply terminal, an output terminal having parasitic capacitor, a PMOS transistor having a current path connected between the power supply terminal and the output terminal and a gate to which one of first and second complementary data signals is supplied, an NMOS transistor having a current path connected between the ground terminal and the output terminal and a gate to which the other of the first and second complementary data signals is supplied, and a gate control section for feeding back the potential of the output terminal to the gates of the transistors and to change the potential of the output terminal toward a predetermined intermediate level within the voltage ranged between the ground terminal and the power supply terminal before the first and second complementary data signals are supplied.

Abstract: An intermediate potential setting circuit includes two MOS transistors having different conductivity types and connected in series between reference power supplies, first and second gate control units, respectively connected to gates of the transistors, for separately ON/OFF-controlling the transistors, a load capacitor connected between the connection node of the transistors and one of the reference power supplies, a control unit, connected between the connection node and the first and second gate control units, for feeding back a potential of the connection node to the first and second gate control units to selectively perform control to turn on the transistors, an external control unit for externally supplying a control signal to the first and second gate control units, and an output terminal, connected to the connection node, for extracting an intermediate potential output as a potential of the load capacitor.