Patent ID: 7545544
Filing Date: 2009-06-09
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image reading apparatus, comprising: a document feeding unit that feeds a document along a feeding path; a read-out sensor that reads out an image from the document fed by the document feeding unit without stopping the feed; a control unit that causes the read-out sensor to stay on standby in a predetermined retracted position at a distance from the feeding path when it is not necessary to read out the image from the document, and controls the read-out sensor, when it is necessary to read out the image from the document, to move to a predetermined document reading position, in such a way that an optical receiver of the read-out sensor in both the predetermined retracted position and the predetermined reading position is always within a space having side edge perpendicular to a section of the feeding path the predetermined document reading position, and to read out the image from the fed document; and an output unit that the image data read out by the read-out sensor.