Patent ID: 6714325
Filing Date: 2004-03-30
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
An image reading device which, while a film on which an image is recorded is being conveyed, reads the image per predetermined color wavelength, comprising:plural light-emitting element groups in each of which a plurality of light-emitting elements, which emit light at substantially the same wavelength, are aligned linearly along a transverse direction of the film; deflecting means for deflecting optical axes of plural illuminated lights, which have respectively different wavelengths and are emitted from the plural light-emitting element groups, such that the optical axes coincide with one another; a focusing optical system which focuses, in a vicinity of the film, the plural illuminated lights which have passed through the deflecting means; and photoelectric converting elements which receive light which has passed through the film or has been reflected by the film, and subject the light to photoelectric conversion.