Abstract: A storage device includes a storage section including a plurality of walls and storing an object in a space surrounded by the plurality of walls; and a flexible printed substrate fixed to the storage section, in which the storage section includes a first positioning portion, and the flexible printed substrate includes a first electrode provided in a first wall among the plurality of walls, a second electrode provided in a second wall among the plurality of walls, a first wiring coupled to the first electrode, a second wiring coupled to the second electrode, and a second positioning portion that is coupled to the first positioning portion to determine a position of the flexible printed substrate.

Abstract: A storage device includes a storage section including a plurality of walls and storing an object in a space surrounded by the walls; and a flexible printed substrate including a non-conductive first cover film layer, a non-conductive second cover film layer, a non-conductive base material layer provided between the first cover film layer and the second cover film layer, a conductive first conductor layer provided between the first cover film layer and the base material layer, and a conductive second conductor layer provided between the second cover film layer and the base material layer, in which the first cover film layer is provided between the second cover film layer and the storage section, the first conductor layer includes a first electrode provided in a first wall and a second electrode provided in a second wall, and the second conductor layer includes a constant voltage wiring held at a constant voltage.

Abstract: A storage device includes a storage section including a plurality of walls and storing an object in a space surrounded by the walls; and a flexible printed substrate fixed to the storage section, in which the flexible printed substrate includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a third electrode, a first terminal that is electrically coupled to the first electrode, a second terminal that is electrically coupled to the second electrode, a third terminal that is electrically coupled to the third electrode, and a plurality of constant voltage terminals held at a constant voltage, one or more constant voltage terminals are arranged between the first terminal and the second terminal, one or more constant voltage terminals are arranged between the second terminal and the third terminal, and one or more constant voltage terminals are arranged between the third terminal and the first terminal.

Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a first sensor, a second sensor, a third sensor, a first processor that generates a first merge image based on first image data acquired by reading by the first sensor and second image data acquired by reading by the second sensor, and a second processor that generates a second merge image based on the second image data and third image data acquired by reading by the third sensor, and generates an output image by performing a linking process on the first merge image and the second merge image.

Abstract: A controller 70 of an image reading device 1 acquires first black reference data at a first time point with a light source 31 off, and stores the first black reference data in a reference data storage 41, and at a second time point after the first time point, acquires with the light source 31 off and stores second black reference data in the reference data storage 41. The controller 70 stores in a scanning data storage 42, without applying shading correction, scanning data read from a document between the first time point and second time point with the light source 31 on. A shading corrector 51 applies shading correction using the first black reference data and second black reference data to the scanning data stored in the scanning data storage 42.

Abstract: A controller 70 of an image reading device 1 acquires first black reference data at a first time point with a light source 31 off, and stores the first black reference data in a reference data storage 41, and at a second time point after the first time point, acquires with the light source 31 off and stores second black reference data in the reference data storage 41. The controller 70 stores in a scanning data storage 42, without applying shading correction, scanning data read from a document between the first time point and second time point with the light source 31 on. A shading corrector 51 applies shading correction using the first black reference data and second black reference data to the scanning data stored in the scanning data storage 42.

Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a first sensor, a second sensor, a third sensor, a first processor that generates a first merge image based on first image data acquired by reading by the first sensor and second image data acquired by reading by the second sensor, and a second processor that generates a second merge image based on the second image data and third image data acquired by reading by the third sensor, and generates an output image by performing a linking process on the first merge image and the second merge image.

Abstract: An image reading device having an image sensor formed by a plurality of sensor chips is provided. The image reading device includes an AFE circuit, a clock provider and a digital data processor. The AFE circuit is configured to process analog data provided by the image sensor so as to convert the analog data into digital data and to output the digital data. The clock provider is configured to provide the image sensor with a driving clock, the clock provider configured to stop providing the driving clock for a certain period of time before the AFE circuit reads initial data provided by each of the sensor chips. The digital data processor configured to remove the digital data provided by the AFE circuit while the clock provider has stopped providing the driving clock.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus that performs shading correction processing with the use of white reference data is provided. The image processing apparatus includes a source data acquisition unit and a white reference data generation unit. The source data acquisition unit acquires source data for the white reference data. The white reference data generation unit generates the white reference data expressed with a predetermined number of bits from the source data acquired by the source data acquisition unit. The white reference data generation unit determines bit precision depending on the minimum value of the source data and generates the white reference data having the determined bit precision.

Abstract: An image reading device having an image sensor formed by a plurality of sensor chips is provided. The image reading device includes an AFE circuit, a clock provider and a digital data processor. The AFE circuit is configured to process analog data provided by the image sensor so as to convert the analog data into digital data and to output the digital data. The clock provider is configured to provide the image sensor with a driving clock, the clock provider configured to stop providing the driving clock for a certain period of time before the AFE circuit reads initial data provided by each of the sensor chips. The digital data processor configured to remove the digital data provided by the AFE circuit while the clock provider has stopped providing the driving clock.

Abstract: In addition to transfer units for transferring electric charges generated from photo receiving units for every cell, a high-speed transfer unit is provided which transfers electric charges generated from the photo receiving units collectively on a unit basis of plural cells, whereby a reading speed can be made higher without making the operation speed of a driving circuit higher. To be more concrete, the number of shift cycles necessary for transferring from the transfer unit electric charges generated from the photo receiving units during the open time period of a shutter or electric charges generated from the photo receiving units during a time period except for the open time period of the shutter can be reduced.

Abstract: In addition to transfer units for transferring electric charges generated from photo receiving units for every cell, a high-speed transfer unit is provided which transfers electric charges generated from the photo receiving units collectively on a unit basis of plural cells, whereby a reading speed can be made higher without making the operation speed of a driving circuit higher. To be more concrete, the number of shift cycles necessary for transferring from the transfer unit electric charges generated from the photo receiving units during the open time period of a shutter or electric charges generated from the photo receiving units during a time period except for the open time period of the shutter can be reduced.

Abstract: Firmware has a plurality of interface modules for mutually transferring signals between a CPU (11) and a plurality of mutually different interface units (40, 41), the type of controller (40a, 41a) is identified by an identifying module, and the CPU (11) is operated by using one of the interface modules corresponding to the controller (40a, 41a). Since the assignment of the controllers (40a, 41a) in memory space of the CPU (11) is different in accordance with the types of the interface units (40, 41), the type of the interface unit (40, 41) can be identified by a return value at a time when data is written in a certain region of the memory space, so that the CPU (11) can be operated in accordance with the type of the interface unit (40, 41).