Scanner with a wing-shaped fluorescent tube housing and dual-faceted scan window

• Main Authors: MCVICAR; DAVID N, ALI-SAFAI; MOHAMMAD
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 02.05.1995
• Edition: 6
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

A hand scanner employs either uniformly or variably frosted scan windows to control illumination. For scanning color documents including books and magazines, a hand scanner employs a fluorescent tube mounted a certain distance above the lower surface of the scanner housing. At the fluorescent tube e...