Patent №
US 8,314,976
Granted
2012-11-20
Filed 2009
Owner
KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Lab
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AI components
1
vision
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
12617089
An image reading apparatus comprising: an automatic document feeding apparatus which conveying a document that has a part written by pigment that becomes colorless when heated and is loaded in a document tray to a sheet discharge location via a conveying path that passes through a prescribed reading out position; a reading section for obtaining an image information by reading out optically from the document which is conveyed by the automatic document feeding apparatus at the reading out position; a storage section for storing the image information obtained by reading the document in the reading section; and a heating unit for heating the document in a temperature of the pigment becomes colorless on a downstream side of the reading out position while the document passing through the conveying path.
AI classification
Ownership
KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
assignment · 235070730
Assignors
MAESHIMA, TOSHIYUKI, NISHIOKA, DAIKI, MORITA, MITSUTAKA
On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.