US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 8 for "Image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus having inclined planar shape of background member to improve sheet shadow detection accuracy" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,580, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus having inclined planar shape of background member to improve sheet shadow detection accuracy" was invented by Masahito Ikeda (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image reading apparatus includes a conveyance member, a transparent member, a background member, and a reading unit. The reading unit arranged on an opposite side to the background member with respect to the transparent member. The reading unit includes a light source and a reading sensor. The light source emits light toward a sheet. The reading senso...