Illumination – Light source and modifier – Including reflector
Patent
1986-06-27
1988-01-26
Jones, Larry
Illumination
Light source and modifier
Including reflector
362217, 362301, F21V 700
Patent
active
047210931
ABSTRACT:
An illumination system for illuminating a line on a document which illumination, when reflected and focused via a lens on a sensor (or image plane), has substantially uniform light intensity along the length of the line. The illumination system includes means for compensation for lens cosine to the fourth power fall-off and an illumination cosine fall-off phenomenon, which has classically been treated as proportional to cosine to the fourth power but in the example of lamps made of coiled tungsten filaments located along the axis of the foci, is more nearly cosine to the 2.8th power. The compensation apparatus includes a cylindrical ellipse for focusing light from two lamps located on an axis which is one foci of the ellipse and the line on the document is located at the other foci of the ellipse. Reflected light from the line on the document is then reflected and focus via a lens onto a sensor. At the sensor, the image is captured for analysis or other uses, e.g., using conventional techniques for character recognition or image processing. The uniform intensity at the sensor can be facilitated by the use of appropriate dimensional relationships between components of the imaging system.
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patent: 4473865 (1984-09-01), Landa
Bullock Michael K.
Miller Frederick C.
Bigel Mitchell S.
International Business Machines Corp.
Jones Larry
Seaman Kenneth A.
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