Patent ID: 7751099
Filing Date: 2010-07-06
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image reading apparatus comprising: a paper supply section which supplies a document; a transporting path which transports the document supplied from the paper supply section; a first sensor which reads an image on a first surface of the document from one side of the transporting path; a second sensor which reads an image on a second surface of the document from the other side of the transporting path; and an image processing section which is constituted so as to correspond to a first reading mode in which two sides of the document are read using the first sensor plural times, and a second reading mode in which two sides of the document are read using the first sensor and the second sensor, and which makes a registration position and direction of an output image in case that the two sides of the document are read in the first reading mode the substantially same as a registration position and direction of an output image in case that the two sides of the document are read in the second reading mode.