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Image scanner

An image reading device and image technology, applied in the direction of image communication, electric recording technology using charge patterns, equipment using electric recording technology using charge patterns, etc., can solve the problems of large-scale optical systems, etc. Object distance, realize miniaturization, and increase the effect of depth of field

Active Publication Date: 2011-02-23
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP
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[0013] Conventional method 1 has the advantage of having a large depth of field as described above, but has the problem of increasing the size of the optical system

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[0084] Next, use Figure 1 ~ Figure 3 An example of the image reading device according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention will be described.

[0085] The image reading device 501 according to the present embodiment includes an imaging optical system 1 , a light source 2 , imaging element units 41 , 42 , . Regarding these structural parts, the light source 2 is arranged near the original 7 as an example of the object to be read as an image, and the imaging optical system 1 is arranged so that the light reflected by the original 7 can be incident. The imaging device section 41 and the like are arranged. Such an image reading device 501 reads the image of the original document 7 along the main scanning direction (X direction) 211, and also scans the original document 7 in the sub scanning direction (Y direction) 212 perpendicular to the main scanning direction 211, and reads the original document. All images in 7. In addition, the manuscript 7 refers to an object to be r...

Embodiment approach 2

[0136] refer to Figure 9 ~ Figure 12 An example of the image reading device 502 in Embodiment 2 of the present invention will be described.

[0137] In the image reading device 501 according to Embodiment 1, the slave originals among the chief rays in the cells 11, 13, . . . belonging to the first row 215 and in the cells 12, 14, . 7 The rays towards the units 11, 13, ... and the units 12, 14, ... are as figure 2 are shown parallel to each other, and between cells 11, 13, ... and cells 12, 14, ... in the first column 215 and the second column 216, as image 3 The rays directed from the document 7 to the individual units within the shown chief rays are also parallel. In addition, in an example of the present embodiment, since the optical axis is a straight line, words such as light rays from the original document 7 toward each unit among the chief rays can be replaced with words such as the optical axis.

[0138] In contrast, image reading device 502 in Embodiment 2 has a ...

Embodiment approach 3

[0146] refer to Figure 13 An example of the image reading device 503 in Embodiment 3 of the present invention will be described.

[0147] In the first and second embodiments described above, the light rays 11a, 12a, . Alternatively, the units 11, 12, . . . are arranged in a slightly inclined manner. On the other hand, in the image reading device 503 according to Embodiment 3, each light ray behind the bending mirror 111, 112 among the chief light rays of each unit 11, 12, . . . In a parallel manner, the units 11, 12, . . . are arranged.

[0148] That is, in the image reading device 503 in the third embodiment, scattered light from the original document 7 that is incident on the units 11, 12, ... is provided between the original document 7 and the units 11, 12, ... The optical path is bent by bending mirrors 111, 112. In this embodiment, the first bending mirror 111 is provided corresponding to the optical axes 11a, 13a, . . . in the units 11, 13, . . . The optical axes 1...

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Abstract

An image scanner includes a light source (2), an imaging optics system (1), an imaging element section (41), a memory (5), and a processor unit (6). The imaging optics system is an optics system for collecting scattered light reflected on an object being imaged to image such collected light as a picture image, and has a plurality of cells (11) and the like which are arranged plurally in a main scanning direction (211) as independent imaging optics systems respectively and form a telecentric optics system at a manuscript side, while arranging the cells in two lines in a sub-scanning direction (212). Each cell in a respective line is arranged in a zigzag pattern in the main scanning direction such that imaged pictures can be complemented between each cell in the sub-scanning direction. The imaging element section is arranged corresponding to each of the cells. The processor unit restores the image information stored on the memory to the picture images and synthesizes those picture images to create a manuscript image.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to an image reading device used in copiers and the like. Background technique [0002] There are roughly two types of image reading devices used in copiers, scanners, facsimile machines, etc., which scan the image at the reading position using a one-dimensional imaging element to read the entire image . In addition, generally, the direction in which the one-dimensional imaging elements are arranged is called the main scanning direction, and the direction in which scanning is performed is called the sub-scanning direction. [0003] One of the two methods is a method in which the entire image in the main scanning direction is reduced and transferred to the imaging element through a single-eye lens, and is mainly used for surface reading in copiers. In this method, the imaging element and the lens normally located on the document side are fixed, and only a mirror (mirror) moves in the sub-scanning direction to scan the enti...

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IPC IPC(8): H04N1/19H04N1/028G03G15/04
CPCH04N1/19584H04N1/0306H04N1/19515H04N1/19589H04N2201/0434H04N1/195H04N1/0312H04N1/1903
Inventor 河野裕之冈本达树美浓部正国枝达也藤内亚纪子
Owner MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP
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