Scan Rate Or Document Movement Variation In Accordance With Data Presence Patents (Class 358/486)
  • Patent number: 11264263
    Abstract: A substrate rotator configured to rotate one or more substrates includes a body, a body actuator coupled to the body and configured to rotate the body, and a first and second gripper coupled to the body. A substrate edge metrology system that measures side chips or other defects on all sides of the substrate is also described. The metrology system includes two metrology stations and the substrate rotator. Methods for measuring side chips or other defects on a substrate are also provided. The method includes performing metrology on a first set of sides of the first substrate, rotating the first substrate by a first angle, and performing metrology on the second set of sides of the first substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Asaf Schlezinger, Markus J. Stopper
  • Patent number: 11080537
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating communication with autonomous vehicles are provided. In one example embodiment, a computing system can obtain a first type of sensor data (e.g., camera image data) associated with a surrounding environment of an autonomous vehicle and/or a second type of sensor data (e.g., LIDAR data) associated with the surrounding environment of the autonomous vehicle. The computing system can generate overhead image data indicative of at least a portion of the surrounding environment of the autonomous vehicle based at least in part on the first and/or second types of sensor data. The computing system can determine one or more lane boundaries within the surrounding environment of the autonomous vehicle based at least in part on the overhead image data indicative of at least the portion of the surrounding environment of the autonomous vehicle and a machine-learned lane boundary detection model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: UATC, LLC
    Inventors: Min Bai, Gellert Sandor Mattyus, Namdar Homayounfar, Shenlong Wang, Shrindihi Kowshika Lakshmikanth, Raquel Urtasun
  • Patent number: 11067435
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method determining a spatial light distribution in an environment. The method comprising: acquiring (602) a spatially resolved light data set (100) by collecting light from the environment (202) using a camera, wherein the light data set (100) comprises a plurality of data elements of a first type (106), each data element of the first type (106) being associated with a vertical angle span and a horizontal angle span, wherein the vertical angle span and the horizontal angle span pertain to angles from which light from the environment (202) is incident on the camera, and each data element of the first type (106) comprising data pertaining to an amount of incident light within a first spectral range; and determining (604), based on the light data set (100), a vertical spatial distribution (122) of the light within the first spectral range. The measurement is taken with a RGB camera and the pixel intensities of row are summed up and averaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Inventor: Dan-Eric Nilsson
  • Patent number: 11030752
    Abstract: An image of a check is captured by an imaging device and a digital image of the check on a replacement background may be created. The check may be placed on any background while the image of the check is being captured. The replacement background replaces, in the digital image, the background that the check is placed on while its image is being captured. The replacement background may comprise a predetermined image or color(s). The image of the check and the replacement background may be provided into a digital image file that may be transmitted to an institution system for deposit of the check into an account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Thomas Aaron Backlund, Kathleen Kimberly Cadenhead, Blake William McAnally, Eron Washington
  • Patent number: 10972626
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image reading apparatus including: a scanner that scans originals by a batch-scan that are placed on an original table; an original reading circuitry that reads an image of each of the scanned originals, and control circuitry, wherein the control circuitry executes a continuous multi-crop process according to a selection by a user, and when the continuous multi-crop process is executed, the control circuitry displays on the display one operation key that receives an instruction to start the next scan and another operation key that receives an instruction to end the reading respectively every time each batch-scan is executed to enable the batch-scan to be repeatedly executed until receiving the instruction to end the reading, and handles the images of the originals read by the repeated batch-scans as a series of image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Mizude, Kazuma Ogawa, Tatsuya Fujisaki, Sho Tsujimoto
  • Patent number: 10949704
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic apparatus. The electronic apparatus includes a communicator comprising communication circuitry, a camera, and a processor configured to control the electronic apparatus to: photograph a display device and a background area through the camera, set an area from among the background area excluding an area corresponding to the display device in the photographed image as a reference template, identify a plurality of areas from among the background area having a same pattern as a pattern included in the reference template and set at least one area, from among the plurality of areas, as a candidate template based on a color of the reference template, and obtain a pattern image on the background area based on an area set as the reference template and an area set as the candidate template, and control the display to output the background image generated based on the obtained pattern image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Soonmook Jeong
  • Patent number: 10782791
    Abstract: Systems and methods for recognizing a gesture in a wearable device are disclosed. The system may sense a plurality of sensor measurements during a gesture sensing session, and down-sample the measurements using an adaptive down-sampling interval. The adaptive down-sampling interval may be determined based at least on a fractional part of a ratio of a frame length of the sensor measurements to a specified target length shorter than the frame length. The magnitude of the down-sampled measurements is normalized, and a feature vector may be generated using the normalized measurements. A gesture recognizer module may associate a gesture with the feature vector using gesture classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Zhiqiang Liang, Tingqian Li, Jinkui Ren
  • Patent number: 10594683
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for securing data using a mobile device. The method may include determining securing global positioning data values of the mobile device; measuring a securing direction of the mobile device relative to a magnetic north direction; capturing a securing password by the mobile device; and securing the data against unauthorized access using the determined global positioning data values, the securing password, and the securing direction as a combined password.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Alberto L. Galvani, Ugo Madama, Paolo Ottaviano, Andrea Tortosa
  • Patent number: 10110784
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus is provided which performs image processing of an input frame image. Contrast analyzer generates a histogram of the input frame image and calculates contrast based on the histogram. Motion-detecting threshold setter calculates a lower-limit threshold and an upper-limit threshold of a motion-detecting threshold by using an input-operated motion-detecting level and the calculated contrast. Motion detector determines that an observation pixel is moving considerably in a case where a finite difference value between frames is greater than the upper-limit threshold, and sets composite ratio K such that compositing of a preceding frame image is not performed. In a case where the finite difference value is smaller than the lower-limit threshold, the observation pixel is determined to be stationary, and composite ratio K is set such that compositing of the preceding frame image is performed at the maximum ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qinhe Wang, Akihiro Furuta
  • Patent number: 9967490
    Abstract: The invention relates to time delay integration (TDI) image sensors. The sensor includes means for detecting a shift of the sensor with respect to the image. The pixel matrix is divided in the column direction into at least a first and a second sub-matrix (Ma, Mb). On each side of each sub-matrix are arranged groups of additional columns (GRa1, GRb1, GRa2, GRb2). The shifts (Db2?Da2, Db3?Da3, etc.) in relative position of these groups between the first and the second sub-matrices are different from each other and make it possible to detect a relative shift of the sensor during travel. More precisely, the signals originating from groups of columns of same rank associated with the two sub-matrices are compared. The pair of groups that delivers the pair of signals that are closest to each other defines the probable shift of the sensor with respect to the image: this shift is equal to the relative position difference of these two groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: E2V SEMICONDUCTORS
    Inventors: Frédéric Mayer, Bertrand De Monte
  • Patent number: 9904989
    Abstract: A method for generating a digital image of at least a portion of a value document, comprises transporting the portion of the value document in a specified transport direction at a specified speed, capturing pixel regions, and generating capture pixel data allocated to integration intervals. The capture pixel data of at least one of the sequences of capture pixel data are corrected. This reduces the influences of the movement of the value document in the transport direction during the capture of capture pixel data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: GIESECKE + DEVRIENT CURRENCY TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventor: Norbert Holl
  • Patent number: 9876925
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus comprising: an original reading unit configured to read an image of each of multiple originals placed on an original table in batch by a batch-scan; a cropping unit configured to crop an image of each original from an entire image which is read by the batch-scan; an image output unit configured to output a cropped image of each original; and a control unit configured to control the original reading unit, the cropping unit, and the image output unit, wherein the control unit is capable of selectively executing: an inversion multi-crop process in which an image density of an edge of each original is supposed to be higher than an image density of a reading-area outside of the original, and an area to be cropped is determined on the basis of a difference in the image density between the edge and the reading-area outside of the original; and a non-inversion multi-crop process in which an image density of an edge of each original is supposed to be lower than an image density of a reading-
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Mizude, Kazuma Ogawa, Tatsuya Fujisaki
  • Patent number: 9805281
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for processing a captured image and, more particularly, for processing a captured image comprising a document. In one embodiment, an apparatus comprising a camera to capture documents is described. In another embodiment, a method for processing a captured image that includes a document comprises the steps of distinguishing an imaged document from its background, adjusting the captured image to reduce distortions created from use of a camera and properly orienting the document is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: COMPULINK MANAGEMENT CENTER, INC.
    Inventors: Minghui Wu, Rongfeng Li, Wenxin Li, Edward P. Heaney, Jr., Karl M. Chan, Kurt A. Rapelje, Bin Fu, Bin Feng
  • Patent number: 9571690
    Abstract: An image scanner, which is incorporated in an image forming apparatus, includes a stationary-document reading section, a moving-document reading section disposed at an angle to the stationary-document reading section, a reader movable between the stationary-document reading section and the moving-document reading section, and a reading element movable to different angles while contacting the stationary-document reading section and the moving-document reading section to selectively read a document placed on the stationary-document reading section and a document moving over the moving-document reading section. The image scanner further includes any one of position detector, a combination of a moving device and at least one position sensor, and a combination of at least one pressing member, a framework, and an angle changer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yohei Osanai, Yasunobu Youda, Tatsuaki Nagano, Takayuki Andoh, Kaoru Tada, Munekazu Hirata, Toshiyuki Horikawa, Kazushige Kawamura, Takuji Kawai, Koji Hatayama
  • Patent number: 9530221
    Abstract: An image capture system includes: an image capture unit configured to capture a first image frame comprising a set of pixels; and a processor coupled to the image capture unit and configured to: determine a normalized distance of a pixel characteristic between the first image frame and a second image frame for each pixel in the first image frame; compare the normalized distance for each pixel in the first image frame against a pixel sensitivity value for that pixel; determine that a particular pixel of the first image frame is a foreground or background pixel based on the normalized distance of the particular pixel relative to the pixel sensitivity value for the particular pixel; and adapt the pixel sensitivity value for each pixel over a range of allowable pixel sensitivity values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: PELCO, INC.
    Inventors: Hongwei Zhu, Farzin Aghdasi, Greg Millar, Lei Wang
  • Patent number: 9531896
    Abstract: An image-reading device reads an image of a sheet while conveying the sheet. The image-reading device sets target lines in the image for searching an edge pixel representing a sheet edge in the image. The target lines include first and second lines that are sequentially arranged. When the first target line includes an edge pixel, a mask region is set on the image. A detection unit searches an edge pixel by sequentially referring to the target lines except the first line according to a line order from the second line and detects a positional coordinate of the edge pixel from among pixels outside the mask. Once the edge pixel is included in the first target line, the mask region is set continuously and dynamically from the first target line to a target line on which detection of the edge pixel ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toshihiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9473300
    Abstract: A system and method for the secure storage and transmission of data is provided. A data aggregate device can be configured to receive secure data from a data source, such as a sensor, and encrypt the secure data using a suitable encryption technique, such as a shared private key technique, a public key encryption technique, a Diffie-Hellman key exchange technique, or other suitable encryption technique. The encrypted secure data can be provided from the data aggregate device to different remote devices over a plurality of segregated or isolated data paths. Each of the isolated data paths can include an optoisolator that is configured to provide one-way transmission of the encrypted secure data from the data aggregate device over the isolated data path. External data can be received through a secure data filter which, by validating the external data, allows for key exchange and other various adjustments from an external source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Jody Rustyn Coleman, Richard W. Poland
  • Patent number: 9361497
    Abstract: A visible target having a predetermined target size is fixed on a document capture stand. A visible aiming light beam is directed along an aiming axis away from an imaging reader. The beam has a beam size in cross-section that changes along the aiming axis. The reader is moved relative to the stand along the aiming axis until the beam size visually matches the target size at a predetermined distance between the reader and the stand. An image of a document supported by the stand is captured at the predetermined distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Charles Torzilli, Mark E. Drzymala
  • Patent number: 9172846
    Abstract: A scanning device includes: a reading unit; a communication unit; a storage unit configured to store identification information for identifying a external apparatus; an operation unit, and a controller configured to perform operations comprising: generating an image file from read signal received from the reading unit, transmitting the image file generated to the external apparatus through the communication unit, and determining whether a size of the document on which the image read by the reading unit is recorded is equal to or smaller than a preset setting size. When the controller receives a signal corresponding to a scan command from the operation unit, the controller, in the generating, generates an image file having a password added, in a case where it is determined that a size of the document is equal to or smaller than the setting size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Wataru Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 9041986
    Abstract: A sheetfed film scanning correction method includes: using a film holding member as a film feeding carrier, wherein the film holding member is fixed and does not move during film feeding, and wherein after the film holding member is inserted into a work position in a scanner, a scanning module of the scanner collects a first correction information under a filmless scanning state and corrects a subsequent scan result according to the first correction information; and setting sheet-feeding rollers of the scanner in idle running as if under a real film scanning state during or prior to collection of the first correction information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: QISDA (SUZHOU) Co., LTD
    Inventors: Yong-Xiang Yi, Shan-Shan Tang
  • Patent number: 9036223
    Abstract: Systems and methods for edge detection during an imaging operation are disclosed. In an exemplary implementation, a method may include subdividing an imaging area into a plurality of border detection zones. The method may also include scanning the imaging area including media to be scanned to obtain optical data for each of the plurality of border detection zones. The method may also include identifying at least one edge of the media based on change in the optical data between directly adjacent border detection zones, where the change indicates detection of a moiré pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Yarn Chee Poon, Chuan Wai Wong, Whee Cheng Ong
  • Patent number: 9036222
    Abstract: A document scanner (10) includes an input tray (20) for holding documents (11). An input image capture device (30) captures at least a portion of the images of documents in the input tray. An image processor (65) determines characteristics of documents in the input tray, and the documents are processed based on the characteristics. At least one characteristic is document length (70), or width (80), or position (170), or other characteristics. An ultrasonic zone (160) detects the documents; and the ultrasonic zones are enabled or disabled in at least one location down the document based on at least one characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Kodak Alaris Inc.
    Inventor: David M. Pultorak
  • Patent number: 9030720
    Abstract: In a sheet conveying device, a first sensing portion is configured to output a first sense signal when a sheet is absent at a first sensing position determined in advance on a sheet placement portion, and output a second sense signal when the sheet is present at the first sensing position. A second sensing portion is configured to output the second sense signal when the sheet is absent at a second sensing position separated from the first sensing position in a width direction perpendicular to a conveying direction of the sheet, and output the first sense signal when the sheet is present at the second sensing position. A sensing control portion is configured to sense a plurality of states in accordance with a combination of the first sense signal and the second sense signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Shinichi Omoya
  • Patent number: 9025211
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes: a housing; a cover pivotable with respect to the housing about a first pivot axis extending in first directions that are opposite each other; a first electric component provided in the housing; a second electric component provided in the cover; and an electric wire configured to connect the first electric component and the second electric component to each other. The electric wire includes: a first extending portion retained by the cover and extending in the first directions; and a second extending portion movable relative to the cover and extending from the first extending portion toward the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Katsuro Miura, Yasuo Nishikawa, Takuya Naniwa
  • Patent number: 9022551
    Abstract: A transportation device includes a transportation unit that transports a transportation target material, a supporting surface that supports the transported transportation target material, a first suction hole that opens in the supporting surface in order to suck the transportation target material which is supported by the supporting surface, a light transmission portion that is exposed in the supporting surface and through which light is permitted to pass, a detector that has a light irradiator capable of irradiating the transportation target material which is supported by the supporting surface with light through the light transmission portion and detects a transportation amount of the transportation target material based on reflected light of the light with which the light irradiator has irradiated the transportation target material, and a second suction hole that opens in the supporting surface at least one of the positions adjacent to the light transmission portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Abe, Mitsutaka Ide, Tomoya Murotani
  • Patent number: 9025219
    Abstract: An image reading device includes a reading unit provided with an image sensor and configured to read a manuscript placed on a contact glass, a manuscript sensor whose output level varies depending on whether the manuscript is detected, and a moving mechanism configured to move the manuscript sensor from a predetermined reference position in an oblique direction with respect to a main scanning direction and a sub scanning direction such that a detection zone of the manuscript sensor passes through a side of the manuscript parallel to the sub scanning direction and a side of the manuscript parallel to the main scanning direction. A recognizing unit is also included that is configured to recognize lengths in the main scanning direction and the sub scanning direction of the manuscript, based on a displacement of the manuscript sensor from the reference position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Kohei Ishido
  • Patent number: 9025214
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a reading unit, a character recognition unit, and a display unit for a display according to a language which is set. The reading unit reads out a document and generates image data. The character recognition unit recognizes a character included in the image data in order to orient the image data upright. The display unit displays information specifying an orientation of the character in the document with respect to the reading unit, when the language which is set is a language which is not recognizable by the character recognition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Nobutaka Kato
  • Patent number: 9025218
    Abstract: In an image reading device, an opposing member opposes an image reading unit. The opposing member has a first part and a second part. A moving unit moves the image reading unit between first and second read positions. An image value generated by reading an image of the first part at the first read position is different from an image value generated by reading an image of the second part at the second read position. The control device is configured to: set a read position to selected one of the first read position and the second read position; control the moving unit to move the image reading unit to the read position; and determine that an edge of the original sheet reaches the reading region when image values generated by the image reading unit are changed while the conveying unit conveys the original sheet along the conveying path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kentaro Iwatsuka
  • Patent number: 9025217
    Abstract: There is provided a document, wherein a measurement image for measuring a position of an image relative to a document is formed on a first surface thereof, a designation image for designating a document position, at which the document is placed on an image reading apparatus that reads an image, is formed on a second surface thereof, and wherein the document is spaced from an end portion of a reading region of the image reading apparatus by placing the document in accordance with the designation of the designation image, and the designation image is formed such that the measurement image is placed in the reading region of the image reading apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Tanigawa, Kousuke Kubota, Osamu Goto, Ryuji Fujiki, Takeshi Kato
  • Patent number: 9019577
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a width specifying part, a parameter value specifying part, and a density correcting part. The width specifying part specifies a width between both ends of an input image of a book about each line of the input image. The parameter value specifying part specifies a value of a density correcting parameter corresponding to the width specified by the width specifying part. The density correcting part corrects density of each line on the basis of the value of the density correcting parameter specified by the parameter value specifying part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Ryuichi Okumura
  • Patent number: 9019572
    Abstract: An image-reading device images each page of a book as a basic image and cuts out a predetermined area of the basic image. The device includes an initial-parameter specification unit, a final-parameter specification unit, a determination unit and a correction unit. The initial-parameter specification unit specifies a parameter for the predetermined area of a page around beginning of turning pages. The final-parameter specification unit specifies a parameter for the predetermined area of a page around an end of turning pages. The determination unit determines a parameter for a certain page of the book on the basis of the parameters specified by the initial-parameter specification unit and the final-parameter specification unit. The correction unit corrects an image of the certain page on the basis of the parameter determined by the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignees: Casio Computer Co., Ltd., Casio Electronics Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hirokazu Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 9007662
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus operative to properly obtain an original area when one or a plurality of originals exists. The image processing apparatus decides an image data area of an original from read image data read thereby. The image processing apparatus has an extracting unit for extracting a plurality of image areas from the read image data and a discriminating unit for discriminating whether or not tilt angles of the image areas extracted by the extracting unit are equal. If one or more tile angles of the image areas are not equal as a result of the discrimination by the discriminating unit, it is determined that each of the image areas is an image data area of the original on the assumption that there are a plurality of originals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mizuki Hayakawa, Yuya Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9007661
    Abstract: In an image reading device, a movable part provided below a document platen in a housing is moved in a sub scanning direction. A reflection control part extending along a movement range of the movable part is fixed to the housing near the movable part. The reflection control part has first reflection parts having a relatively large reflectance and second reflection parts having a relatively small reflectance arranged along the movement range. A detection light irradiation part provided in the movable part irradiates the reflection control part with detection light. A detection light reception part receives the detection light reflected by the reflection control part. A signal generating part generates a binary signal corresponding to the detection light received by the detection light reception part. A movement deciding part decides movement state of the movable part according to the binary signal generated by the signal generating part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Haruki Sayama
  • Patent number: 9001398
    Abstract: An image reading device includes a reading glass moving unit that moves a reading glass; a determining unit that determines whether or not a read image obtained by the sheet-through reading unit includes a vertical stripe which represents linear images continuous in the original carrying direction; a determining unit that, when a vertical stripe is formed, determines matching/mismatching of the positions of the vertical stripe in read images of an original carrying member which are obtained before and after moving the reading glass; a determining unit that, based on determination indicating mismatching, determines that a causing matter of the vertical stripe is present on the reading glass and, based on determination indicating matching, determines that a causing matter of the vertical stripe is present on a portion other than the reading glass; and a determining unit that determines the type of the causing matter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroki Mayama
  • Patent number: 9001395
    Abstract: An image reading device includes an illuminating means for illuminating a reading position through which a sheet conveyed by conveying means passes, optical reading means for reading reflected light of the sheet illuminated by the illuminating means when the sheet passes the reading position, a white reference plate disposed opposite to the optical reading means with the reading position sandwiched therebetween, and moving structure means for moving a placement position of the illuminating means based on a placement position of the white reference plate, and storage means is included for storing information in a searchable manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Seiji Ikari, Junji Miura
  • Patent number: 8988743
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a document detecting apparatus includes a light-emitting element, a photoelectric conversion element, a light-emission controller and a detection processor. The light-emitting element projects light onto a detection position of a document. The light-emitting element is not used for reading an image of the document. The photoelectric conversion element converts light projected onto the detection position into an electric signal and outputs the electric signal. The light-emission controller changes the light quantity of the light emitted by the light-emitting element during a predetermined interval. The detection processor detects the presence or absence of the document at the detection position of the document based on whether a value of the output electric signal during the predetermined interval changes in correspondence to the change of the light quantity caused by the light-emission controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Sueo Ueno, Mitsuru Hatano, Katsuya Nagamochi, Hiroyuki Shiraishi, Yusuke Hashizume
  • Patent number: 8982433
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a width specifying part, a parameter value specifying part, and a density correcting part. The width specifying part specifies a width between both ends of an input image of a book about each line of the input image. The parameter value specifying part specifies a value of a density correcting parameter corresponding to the width specified by the width specifying part. The density correcting part corrects density of each line on the basis of the value of the density correcting parameter specified by the parameter value specifying part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Ryuichi Okumura
  • Patent number: 8976427
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus and a method of controlling the same are provided. The image forming apparatus includes a document feeder to feed an original document, a time delay integration image sensor to scan the original document and read image data, and a controller to activate a time delay integration function of the time delay integration image sensor when a direction for feed of the original document corresponds to a sub-scanning direction of the time delay integration image sensor, and to deactivate the time delay integration function of the time delay integration image sensor when the direction for feed of the original document does not correspond to the sub-scanning direction of the time delay integration image sensor, during reading of the original document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Seung Je Joh
  • Patent number: 8970920
    Abstract: The apparatus of the present invention totalizes a frequency distribution while switching frequency distributions as targets, for each region having a set width, by using a sensor which captures document image data and a setting unit which sets a region width in accordance with frequency distribution generation targets. Upon detecting the trailing end of the document, the apparatus decides a remainder region which is not a totalization target in accordance with the remaining amount of image data of the document, and does not totalize any frequency distribution in the remainder region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasuyuki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8964272
    Abstract: Various method and apparatus are disclosed for scanning a transparency with a template
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Justin A. Tehrani, Virgil K. Russon, Steven J. Simske
  • Patent number: 8958135
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a determining unit configured to determine whether a malfunction of relative movement between a document and an image reading unit reading an image of the document occurs when the document is read by the image reading unit while at least one of the document and the image reading unit is moved, a specifying unit configured to specify a position in image data of the image read by the image reading unit corresponding to a position where the malfunction occurs if the determining unit determines that the malfunction of relative movement occurs, and a control unit configured to cause an image display unit to display an image based on the image data to enable a user to discriminate the position specified by the specifying unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tadao Saito
  • Patent number: 8958134
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide lighting for an image array. Specifically, embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for providing localized lighting for an image array. In a typical embodiment, a set of pixels being scanned in the image array is identified. A subset of light sources within an array of light sources that corresponds to the set of pixels is engaged. After the pixels have been scanned, the subset of light sources is disengaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Inventor: Moon J. Kim
  • Patent number: 8953229
    Abstract: An image data output unit including an output-side processing section for performing a plurality of processing operations on image data, and an imaging unit including an imaging-side processing section for performing a given processing operation on image data outputted from the image data output unit and an imaging operation section for performing an imaging operation based on the image data outputted from the imaging-side processing section are provided. An amount of data to be transferred per unit time of processed image data that will result when the processing operations are performed on the image data at the output-side processing section is compared with a transferable amount of data transmission per unit time between the image data output unit and the imaging unit, and each of the processing operations is allocated to the output-side processing section or the imaging-side processing section based on the result of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Riso Kagaku Corporation
    Inventor: Mitsuharu Shiokawa
  • Patent number: 8953224
    Abstract: An operating device usable with an image forming apparatus to increase free movement thereof and an image forming apparatus having the same. A sliding unit and a hinge unit provided at a rear surface of the operating device can provide increased free movement of the operating device. A horizontal sliding motion of the operating device can be provided by a the sliding unit, and the sliding unit can be rotated relative to a body of the image forming apparatus with the hinge unit. The sliding unit can include a first sliding member and a second sliding member to slide on the first sliding member. The hinge unit can include a hinge shaft and a bracket rotatably coupled to the hinge shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young Jae Mok, Kwang Hyok Park
  • Patent number: 8947751
    Abstract: An image reading device, which can be included in an image forming apparatus, includes an image pickup device, a transparent member, a traveling body, and a housing. The traveling body includes a light source to emit light and guides the light reflected from a surface of the document to the image pickup device while moving in a sub scanning direction along the document surface on the transparent member. The housing accommodates the image pickup device and the traveling body, and includes a base member including a rectangular bottom surface and a side surface, and a rail member including a rail surface and a first vertical surface. The rail member further includes a fixing part that is a surface to be fixed to the bottom surface of the base member and to extend from one end of the rail member in the sub scanning direction to the other end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh, Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kusumoto, Tatsuaki Nagano, Yohei Osanai, Satoshi Narai, Masafumi Kishi, Toshiyuki Horikawa
  • Patent number: 8947690
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a carriage, a carriage detector, and a control unit. The carriage detector outputs a detection signal of the carriage when the carriage is at the home position, and outputs a non-detection signal of the carriage when the carriage is located closer to a document size reading position than a predetermined position between the home position and the document size reading position. The control unit moves the carriage to the home position when the image reading apparatus enters a sleep mode, keeps the carriage detained while performing initialization after the sleep mode is cancelled, and moves the carriage, upon receipt of a scanning instruction after the initialization is completed, toward the document size reading position in the case where the carriage detector outputs the detection signal of the carriage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Mizue Kadobayashi
  • Patent number: 8934152
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording processing unit that crosses a supporting stage; and a Y axis movement unit that causes the recording processing unit to move. The Y axis movement unit includes a guide rail of a reference side and a guide rail of a following side that support the recording processing unit to be free sliding; a first rail attachment base, which is fixed to the supporting stage, and to which the guide rail of the reference side is attached; and a second rail attachment base, which is fixed to the supporting stage, and to which the guide rail of the following side is attached. The first rail attachment base includes an attachment reference portion, and the load that the first rail attachment base receives from the recording processing unit is greater than that received by the second rail attachment base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Ryoichi Onishi
  • Patent number: 8922850
    Abstract: Contamination of a reading window is detected between documents by a contamination detection section when a plurality of sheets of documents are transferred and a transferred document is read through a reading window, transfer of the document is stopped by a stopping section based on the detection result, and a corresponding purport is displayed on a display section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideyuki Hiro
  • Patent number: 8922848
    Abstract: A reading unit includes a carriage extending in a first direction, and an image sensor configured to be supported by the carriage, and having a case extending in the first direction and a plurality of light receiving elements contained in the case and arranged in the first direction. The carriage has a reference surface, a pair of supporting portions provided at two end sides in the first direction, and one end edge positioned on one side, with respect to the reference surface, in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and parallel to the reference surface, and the case has a pair of supported portions provided to correspond to the pair of supporting portions and configured to be supported swingably by the corresponding supporting portions. The case is configured to swing about a first axis between a first position and a second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasuo Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 8902256
    Abstract: A reproducing apparatus includes: a reproducing portion for reproducing, from a recording medium, moving image data including plural frames whose information amount has been compressed by intraframe encoding; a memory for storing the moving image data reproduced by the reproducing portion; a decoding portion for reading out the frames of the moving image data stored in the memory and decoding the read-out data, the decoding portion reading out the moving image data in succession starting from an upper end of a screen for each frame to decode the read-out moving image data; an instruction portion for instructing enlargement of the moving image data; an enlarging area setting portion for setting, for each frame of the moving image data, a partial area on which enlarging processing is to be performed; a control portion for controlling the decoding portion in accordance with the enlarging instruction, the control portion stopping reading out the one frame of moving image data from the memory, which is performed b
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshinobu Sato