Patent ID: 6862119

Claim:
An image reading device comprising: a read object sensing processor that senses whether a read object is attached to said image reading device; a timer that measures an elapsed time since said read object was attached to said image reading device; and a reading operation control processor that automatically starts a reading operation in which an image recorded in said read object is read, when said elapsed time reaches a predetermined waiting time, wherein said reading operation control processor comprises a waiting time setting processor by which a length of said waiting time is changed, and wherein said reading operation includes a pre-scanning operation in which said image is read with a first reading pitch coarser than a predetermined value, and a regular scanning operation in which said image is read with a second reading pitch finer than said first reading pitch, the first and second reading pitches being associated with relative movement between a scanning member and the read object during the pre-scanning operation and the regular scanning operation, respectively.