US 12,081,710 B2
Image reading device and image reading method
Kazuya Takita, Shimonoseki (JP)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Nov. 14, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/508,480.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-184226 (JP), filed on Nov. 17, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0171692 A1, May 23, 2024
Int. Cl. H04N 1/04 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 1/00745 (2013.01) [H04N 1/0071 (2013.01); H04N 1/00716 (2013.01); H04N 1/00729 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image reading device comprising:
a transport unit configured to transport a document in a predetermined transport direction;
a reading unit configured to read the document transported by the transport unit;
a multi-feed detector provided at a position upstream of the reading unit in the transport direction and configured to detect a multi-feed of the document; and
a control unit, wherein
when the multi-feed detector detects the multi-feed of the document, the control unit
acquires a document width from image data generated by the reading unit reading a leading end portion of the document, the document width being a length of the document in a width direction intersecting the transport direction,
determines, based on the document width, whether a size of the document corresponds to a size of a plastic card or an instant film,
does not execute error processing in response to an occurrence of the multi-feed when it is determined that the size of the document corresponds to the size of the plastic card or the instant film, and
executes the error processing when it is determined that the size of the document does not correspond to the size of the plastic card or the instant film.