Patent ID: 7937002
Filing Date: 2011-05-03
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An original document reading apparatus having a controller for conveying an original document from a medium loading section for loading said original document via an information reading section for reading information on said original document to a discharged medium stacking section on which said original document is stacked, and for controlling reading operation of said information on said original document, comprising: an apparatus information reporting section for reporting apparatus information; a reading start detecting section for detecting an original document reading start instruction when said original document is read; and a conveyance sheet number counting section for counting a sheet number of said original documents conveyed to said information reading section, wherein said controller instructs said apparatus information reporting section, when resuming said reading operation of said information on said original document after suspending said reading operation on an irregular occasion, to make a report of loading on said medium loading section said original documents, said original documents having been loaded after suspending said reading operation, including already read original documents on which said information has already been read prior to suspension of said reading operation as well as unread original documents on which said information has not been read prior to suspension of said reading operation, wherein said controller subsequently controls conveyance of said original documents when said reading start detecting section detects said original document reading start instruction, in such a manner as to set a conveyance speed of said already read original documents to be faster than a conveyance speed of said unread original documents, based on the sheet number of said original documents counted with the conveyance sheet number counting section until the suspension of said reading operation, wherein said conveyance sheet number counting section counts a sheet number of said already read original documents with said information reading section, wherein said controller controls reading skipping operation of said information on each said already read original document based on the sheet number of said already read original documents, and wherein said controller controls said reading skipping operation of said information on said original document as well as controls, when a page on which said reading operation is suspended is fed, a monitoring period for judging said feeding jam on said page of said original documents to be shorter than said monitoring period for judging said feeding jam on regular pages of said original documents.