Patent ID: 6233065
Filing Date: 2001-05-15
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
A scanner with a transmission-mode and a reflection-mode scanning functions, scanning an article for obtaining an electronic signal, and comprising:a housing having an aperture;a scanning window having a first side and a second opposite side;a single moving carriage having therein an image-picking device, and mounted at said first side of said scanning window; anda combining device comprising:a guiding path;a real luminous body mounted at said second opposite side for providing a first optical signal for said transmission-mode scanning function;a virtual luminous body mounted at said first side for transmitting said first optical signal from said real luminous body through said aperture to said article for said reflection-mode scanning function; anda linking device connected to said single moving carriage and to said two luminous bodies, in which said two luminous bodies are synchronously moved by said single moving carriage along said guiding path.