US 7,515,312 B2
Image scanning device and image forming device
Ayumu Murakami, Abiko (Japan); Shoko Magata, Toride (Japan); Takeshi Aoyama, Abiko (Japan); Yuichi Yamamoto, Toride (Japan); Takayuki Suga, Toride (Japan); and Haruhisa Oshida, Abiko (Japan)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Dec. 22, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/313,831.
Claims priority of application No. 2004-374573 (JP), filed on Dec. 24, 2004.
Prior Publication US 2006/0139700 A1, Jun. 29, 2006
Int. Cl. H04N 1/04 (2006.01); H04N 1/40 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 358—461  [358/496; 358/498; 358/497; 358/408] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image scanning device comprising:
a conveyance path which conveys an original document;
first scanning means and second scanning means which scan a first face and a second face, respectively, of the original document conveyed along said conveyance path; and
a white reference member used for adjusting the white levels of the scanning means;
wherein said white reference member is placed at a scanning position of said second scanning means, and
wherein said first scanning means is movable so that said first scanning means and said second scanning means can scan the same surface of said white reference member.