Patent ID: 8139272
Filing Date: 2012-03-20
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image reading apparatus, comprising: a reading device configured to read an image of a document including at least one sheet to obtain image data of the image; a moving mechanism configured to move at least one of the reading device and the document; an operable portion capable of being inputted a specific command; a read-controlling portion configured to conduct a reading operation in which the reading device reads the image of the document while scanning the document by controlling operations of the reading device and the moving mechanism so as to obtain each section of the image data of one sheet as one of the at least one sheet, wherein parts of the image of the one sheet respectively corresponding to the sections of the image data of the one sheet are read in a reading order; an image-data storing portion configured to store, in a memory, the sections of the image data of the document in the reading order; a display device configured to display a display image based on the sections of the image data stored in the image-data storing portion, the display image corresponding to the image of the document; a display-controlling portion configured to control the display device so as to display the display image in a manner that parts of the display image respectively corresponding to the sections of the image data are displayed in the same order as the reading order; a command detecting portion configured to detect the specific command; an output-range determining portion configured to determine an output range which is a range of output image data of the document to be outputted from the image reading apparatus, the output range ranging, from the section of the image data of the document corresponding to the first part of the display image, to the section of the image data of the one sheet corresponding to the last part of the display image, the first part of the display image being a part of the display image corresponding to the section of the image data obtained first by the reading operation of the document, the last part of the display image corresponding to the section of the image data obtained last by the reading operation of the one sheet and being a part of the display image displayed last on the display device at the timing when the specific command is detected; and an image-data outputting portion configured to output sections of the image data included in the output range, and not to output sections of the image data of the one sheet not included in the output range.