Compensating device for improving the scanning luminance in a scanner

• US 6,133,580 A
• Filed: 10/07/1998
• Issued: 10/17/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 03/21/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hanger Solutions, LLC (IP Investments Group LLC)
• Original Assignee: Mustek Systems Incorporated
• Inventors: Sun, Chung-Yueh
• Primary Examiner(s): Pitts, Harold I.
• Application Number:
  US09/168,196
• Time in Patent Office: 741 Days
• Field of Search: 250/566, 235/454
• US Class Current: 250/566
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10732 Light sources

Abstract

A compensating device for improving the scanning luminance of a scanner is disclosed. The compensating device utilizes a plurality of crutch-shaped light tubes to form a light-radiating device, thereby improving the scanning luminance at the two ends of the straight-line portions of the light tubes. Consequently, the object is scanned by a uniform and sufficient radiating light source and precise scanning signals are obtained and processed, thereby improving scanning quality.

Claims

1. A compensating device of a scanner for improving scanning luminance comprising at least:

a light-radiating device comprising at least two crutch-shaped light tubes, wherein each of said crutch-shaped light tubes has a straight-line portion and a U-shaped curved portion; and

an image-receiving device;

wherein said light-radiating device projects light toward a scanning central line on a scanned object, and the image of said scanned object is reflected onto said image-receiving device; and

the straight-line portion of each of said crutch-shaped light tubes is disposed in parallel with said scanning central line.

2. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the U-shaped curved portions of said crutch-shaped light tubes are disposed at the two ends of said scanning central line, respectively.

3. The device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the straight-line portions of said crutch-shaped light tubes are disposed at the two sides of said scanning central line, respectively.

4. The device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the straight-line portions of said crutch-shaped light tubes are disposed at the same side of said scanning central line.

5. The device as claimed in claim 2, wherein at least two said crutch-shaped light tubes are disposed with the openings of their U-shaped curved portions around the two ends of said scanning central line, respectively.

6. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the U-shaped curved portions of said crutch-shaped light tubes are disposed at the same end of said scanning central line.

7. The device as claimed in claim 6, wherein the straight-line portions of said crutch-shaped light tubes are disposed at two sides of said scanning central, line respectively.

8. The device as claimed in claim 6, wherein the straight-line portions of said crutch-shaped light tubes are disposed at the same side of said scanning central line.

9. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said crutch-shaped light tubes are disposed on a single plane and said plane is parallel to the surface of said scanned object.

10. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said crutch-shaped light tubes are disposed on different planes and said planes are parallel to the surface of said scanned object.

11. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the straight-line portions of said crutch-shaped light tubes serve as rotating axes, respectively, such that the planes where said crutch-shaped light tubes are disposed are rotated to specific angles with respect to the surface of said scanned object.