Scanning method and apparatus
CA 1214542 A · Owner: Xerox Corporation · Inventors: Culter, Robert G.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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A document scanner compensates for mechanical misalignment between a document and a photosensitive array by storing pixel information from the array and timing the output of such information in accordance with stored offset values which represent the mechanical misalignment for successive relative positions of the document and of the array. -14-
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- Granted November 25, 1986. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended November 25, 2003.
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