Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image reading device illuminating a white reference member at a lower luminous intensity to generate black correction data for shading correction
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Application No.: US15415067Application Date: 2017-01-25
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Publication No.: US09992375B2Publication Date: 2018-06-05
- Inventor: Ryo Matsubara , Hirotsugu Fusayasu , Katsuo Inokuchi , Tatsuya Hirota , Yuuichi Tutiya
- Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: McDermott Will & Emery LLP
- Priority: JP2015-056556 20150319
- Main IPC: H04N1/00
- IPC: H04N1/00 ; H04N1/028 ; H04N1/12 ; H04N1/19 ; H04N1/191 ; H04N1/193 ; H04N1/031 ; H04N1/40 ; H04N1/401 ; H04N1/407

Abstract:
An image reading device includes: a sensor module having a light source and a plurality of sensors; a white reference plate; and an image processor that generates correction data to be used for shading correction and performs the shading correction on image signals, using the correction data. The light source is configured to switch between at least a first luminous intensity and a second luminous intensity lower than the first luminous intensity. The image processor acquires intermediate data by causing the plurality of sensors to acquire an image signal of the white reference plate illuminated with the second luminous intensity, generates black correction data, based on the intermediate data, and performs the shading correction, using the black correction data, so that a density unevenness, in an image, caused by interference between image signals from the plurality of sensors.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170134613A1 IMAGE READING DEVICE Public/Granted day:2017-05-11
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