Patent ID: 9300827
Filing Date: 2016-03-29
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. An image-reading apparatus comprising: a housing having an insertion slot for inserting therein a medium; a battery being built-in in the housing; a conveying unit conveying the medium from the insertion slot to inside of the housing; an image capturing unit capturing an image of the medium conveyed by the conveying unit; a control unit controlling at least the conveying unit and the image capturing unit; a state detector detecting whether the image capturing unit is ready to read the medium; a reset unit resetting the control unit; and two or more operation units provided on an outer peripheral surface of the housing to give an instruction to the control unit, wherein the reset unit resets the control unit upon simultaneous satisfaction of a first condition that the state detector detects that the image capturing unit is unready to read the medium and a second condition that two specific operation units among the operation units are simultaneously operated.