US 11,729,330 B2
Image reading apparatus
Noriyuki Koyanagi, Kitakyushu (JP); and Tokujiro Okuno, Kitakyushu (JP)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on May 23, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/664,527.
Application 17/664,527 is a continuation of application No. 17/087,331, filed on Nov. 2, 2020, granted, now 11,343,399.
Application 17/087,331 is a continuation of application No. 16/117,222, filed on Aug. 30, 2018, granted, now 10,863,046, issued on Dec. 8, 2020.
Application 16/117,222 is a continuation of application No. 15/042,000, filed on Feb. 11, 2016, granted, now 10,091,375, issued on Oct. 2, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 2015-025473 (JP), filed on Feb. 12, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2022/0286574 A1, Sep. 8, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 1/00822 (2013.01) [H04N 1/0057 (2013.01); H04N 1/00716 (2013.01); H04N 1/00729 (2013.01); H04N 1/00806 (2013.01); H04N 1/00811 (2013.01); H04N 2201/0081 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
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1. An image reading apparatus that reads an image of a document, the image reading apparatus comprising:
a lower unit;
an upper unit that is rotatably supported by the lower unit;
a transport device comprising transport rollers that is configured to transport the document at a plurality of transport speeds;
a reading device comprising first and second sensors that is configured to read the image of the document transported at a transport speed according to a resolution associated with a reading mode, wherein at least one of the transport speeds decreases when the resolution increases;
a controller that is configured to accept an instruction to read the image of the document and generate image data of the image read by the reading device with the resolution, the controller being configured to select a low speed mode transporting the document at a low speed, the low speed mode comprising a setting to be set to one of an ON-state and an OFF-state, the setting being operated when instructing execution of the reading mode associated with the instruction, the setting changing to the low speed that is lower than a transport speed according to the resolution associated with the reading mode selected; and
a user interface comprising at least a plurality of buttons and lamps that is provided in the upper unit and indicates a state which is under the low speed mode when the low speed mode is set to the ON-state,
wherein the controller changes the transport speed to the low speed, without changing the resolution, when the reading of the document is instructed in a condition that the low speed mode is in the ON-state,
wherein at least one of the transport speeds changes to the low speed in a condition that the low speed mode is in the ON-state.