Optical device and method for scanner

• US 20030164995A1
• Filed: 06/19/2002
• Published: 09/04/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 09/04/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Transpacific Systems LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Transpacific Systems LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Hsu, Chuan-Yu, Tsuei, Ji-Mei, Fang, Po-Hua
• Application Number:
  US10/174,888
• Publication Number:
  US 20030164995A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/509
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/03 with photodetectors arranged in a substantially linear array
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/1017 the main-scanning components remaining positionally invariant with respect to one another in the sub-scanning direction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/193 using electrically scanned linear arrays , e.g. linear CCD arrays
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/02493 Additional optical elements not otherwise provided for, e.g. filters, polarising plates, masks or apertures

Abstract

A optical device and method for scanner that includes at least a concave mirror, a image device, a stop and a image adjusting module. The concave mirror is with a reflecting surface to focus light and reflect said light to a pre-determined route. The image device can receive the light reflected from at least a concave mirror and convert the light into digital signal. Said stop is on the light traveling route between the image device and at least a concave mirror to reject the extra light. The said image adjusting module is used to adjust the image formed by at least one of the said concave mirrors. The method of adjusting the scanned image will multiply the scanned image by a 2-dimensional enlarging value, said method also cover adjusting the MTF value of the image that near the two ends of the object being scanned.

Claims

1. A optical device for scanner that can accept the light reflected from the object scanned, and said optical device comprises:

at least a concave mirror with a reflecting surface to focus light and reflect said light to a pre-determined route,

a image device that can accept the light reflected from a concave mirror and convert the light into digital signal,

a stop that is on the light traveling route between said image device and at least a concave mirror to reject the extra light,

2. The optical device for scanner of claim 1, wherein said stop has at least a light pass-through hole.

3. The optical device for scanner of claim 2, wherein said light pass-through hole is a horizontally extended strap-shaped light pass-through hole.

4. The optical device for scanner of claim 2, wherein the number of said light pass-through hole is multiple and said holes are arranged horizontally into a long strap format.

5. The optical device for scanner of claim 1, wherein said concave mirror is with two parallel long sides intersecting with two short sides, and said concave mirror is with the first plane surface and the second plane surface that defined by said long sides and said short sides.

6. The optical device for scanner of claim 5, wherein bending said two short sides will form a concave mirror that said first plane surface concave and said second plane surface convex.

7. The optical device for scanner of claim 5, wherein bending the said two long sides will form a concave mirror that said first plane surface concave and said second plane surface convex.

8. The optical device for scanner of claim 5, wherein bending said two long sides and said two short sides in the same time will form a concave mirror that said first plane surface concave and said second plane surface convex.

9. The optical device for scanner of claim 1, wherein said device has at least one flat mirror on the light traveling path to reflect light.

10. The optical device for scanner of claim 1, wherein said device has at least a image adjusting module to adjust the light image formed by at least one concave mirror.

11. The optical device for scanner of claim 1, wherein each concave mirror is made of thin board, and one side of each said board is coated with reflecting material.

12. The optical device for scanner of claim 11, wherein, said coated side is on the inner concave side of said concave mirror.

13. The optical device for scanner of claim 1, wherein said device comprises a case that is containing and holding concave mirrors, image devices and stops, and on some pre-determined positions of said case, certain angle and shape is made to hold at least a corresponding concave mirror.

14. The optical device for scanner of claim 13, wherein said pre-determined positions of said case is made in certain shape to match the curve-shaped concave mirror, so said concave mirror can be placed on said position directly without any modification.

15. The optical device for scanner of claim 14, wherein said concave mirror is made of bendable material and can be placed on said pre-determined position directly to form a concave mirror.

16. The optical device for scanner of claim 1, wherein the number of the concave mirror is multiple.

17. The optical device for scanner of claim 16, wherein the multiple concave mirrors are in the same curve shape.

18. The optical device for scanner of claim 16, wherein said multiple concave mirrors are in at least two different curve shape.

26. The image adjusting method of a optical device for scanner of claim 24, wherein said method is to be used in said optical device in claim 1.

19. The optical device for scanner that will receive the light reflected from a object, wherein said device comprises at least one concave mirror with a reflecting side to focus and reflect light to a pre-determined direction;

one image device to receive the light reflected from a concave mirror and convert said light into digital signal, more over, said device does not have lens set and convex mirror but has one stop with at least one light pass-through hole on the light traveling path to reject the extra light.

20. The optical device for scanner of claim 19, wherein said device comprises at least one flat mirror on the light traveling path to reflect light.

21. The optical device for scanner of claim 19, wherein said device has at least a image adjusting module to adjust the light image formed by at least one concave mirror.

22. The optical device for scanner of claim 19, wherein each said concave mirror is made of thin board, and one side of each said board is coated with reflecting material.

23. The optical device for scanner of claim 22, wherein said device comprises a case that is containing and holding concave mirrors, image devices and stops, and on some pre-determined positions of said case, certain angle and shape is made to hold at least a corresponding concave mirror, said pre-determined positions of said case is made in certain shape to match the curve-shaped concave mirror, so said concave mirror can be placed on the said position directly without any modification to form a concave mirror.

24. The image adjusting method of a optical device for scanner, wherein said image adjusting method comprises the following steps:

scanning a object along with a certain direction to obtain a scanned image,

multiplying the scanned image by the pre-determined 2-dimensional enlarging ratio,

adjusting the value of MTF that near the two ends of the scanned image,

obtaining a output image.

25. The image adjusting method of a optical device for scanner of claim 24, wherein the method of calculating the image enlarging ratio comprises the following steps:

providing a corrected diagram,

scanning the corrected diagram and obtaining the scanned image of the corrected diagram,

calculating the 2-dimensional distance difference between the pixels that on said scanned image of the corrected diagram and the scanned image of the scan object and convert the difference into enlarging ratio,

storing the enlarging ratio for image adjusting use.