Patent ID: 7828279
Filing Date: 2010-11-09
Classification: B65H,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of scanning at least first and second documents comprising repeating, for each document, the steps of: obtaining the document that is to be scanned, leading edge first, from an input tray; transporting the document at a transport velocity past a scanner to obtain image data therefrom; stacking each scanned document aligned with trailing-edge registration in a sloped output tray, in the order of scanning, by a sequence that comprises: detecting the trailing edge of the scanned document; feeding the leading edge of the scanned document from an exit nip in a forward direction and above the sloped output tray at a transport velocity; changing the speed of the document transport at the exit nip to an exit velocity, different from the transport velocity, according to the timing of the trailing edge detection; ejecting the trailing edge of the scanned document from the exit nip at the exit velocity; restoring speed at the exit nip to the transport velocity for feeding the leading edge of a subsequent document from the exit nip at the transport velocity; and wherein the exit velocity is slower than the transport velocity.