Patent ID: 6930807
Filing Date: 2005-08-16
Classification: G02B,G03B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A color image reading apparatus comprising: light-receiving means formed by a plurality of line sensors; imaging means for providing a light beam from an object to said light-receiving means; color-separation means, inserted in a first optical path between said imaging means and said light-receiving means, for color-separating the light beam into a plurality of color light beams; first optical means having a power in a sub-scanning direction, inserted in a second optical path between the object and said imaging means, for temporarily imaging the light beam from the object in the sub-scanning direction in the second optical path; and a slit disposed between said first optical means and said imaging means in the second optical path, at a position where said first optical means temporarily images the light beam from the object in the sub-scanning direction.