An apparatus which turns a page of an open book, includes an arm; a sticking part which is attached to a tip portion of an arm, wherein, the sticking part comes into contact with a page at a departure position and the sticking part separates from a page at a destination position; a driver which drives the arm to make the sticking part perform a to-and-fro movement between the departure position and the destination position; and a controller which controls the driver to temporarily stop the movement of the sticking part on a way to the destination position from the departure position.

An arm motor control section controls the operation of an arm motor that drives an arm section for turning a page of a book by pressing an adhesion roller against the page, and a current detection section outputs a current limit notice upon detecting an overcurrent in the arm motor which is limited by a limiter. When a current limit notice is outputted in a page turning operation, a CPU drives and controls the arm motor to perform reverse rotation by the arm motor control section, and thereby controls a pressing period that is a locking period during which the adhesion roller is pressing the page.

Before a page turning operation, a CPU sets, in an arm descending movement strength level register, a strength level which has been set by a user's operation on a tablet and is proportional to the pressing force of a descending arm section against a page. When performing a page turning operation, the CPU refers to an arm descending movement VSET table, reads out a VSET set value corresponding to the set strength level for an arm descending movement, and supplies the VSET set value to an arm motor control section. Then, the arm motor control section controls the operation of an arm motor which drives the arm section in accordance with the VSET set value.

Before a page turning operation, a CPU sets, in an arm descending movement strength level register, a strength level which has been set by a user's operation on a tablet and is proportional to the pressing force of a descending arm section against a page. When performing a page turning operation, the CPU refers to an arm descending movement VSET table, reads out a VSET set value corresponding to the set strength level for an arm descending movement, and supplies the VSET set value to an arm motor control section. Then, the arm motor control section controls the operation of an arm motor which drives the arm section in accordance with the VSET set value.

An instruction manual is constituted by pages composed of different types of paper, such as plain paper, thin paper and thick paper. Each of the plain paper, the thin paper, and the thick paper constitutes a plurality of pages. The instruction manual describes that, for example, the paper of page 1 to page 10 corresponds to plain paper, the paper of page 11 to page 21 corresponds to thin paper, and the paper of page 22 and subsequent pages corresponds to thick paper, and describes that pages that are thicker than the thick paper of page 22 and subsequent pages may not be properly turned. The user views and touches pages composed of these different types of paper to recognize the differences among plain paper, thin paper, and thick paper, and thereby more correctly understands the contents contained in the instruction manual.

When a page is conveyed from a sticking section, a catching section catches and brings the page to a page-turning end point by a vane section rubbing against a surface of the page. A regulation section is provided extending from a side of a roller cover to an area below vane sections, and regulates the movement of each vane section before a vane section strikes the page already fixed at the page-turning endpoint or strikes a holding plate. By being formed of an elastic member, each vane section is pulled into the roller cover while being greatly bent by the regulation section.

An apparatus which turns a page of an open book includes a tuning mechanism, a drive unit and a control unit. The turning mechanism brings a predetermined member into contact with a page at a departure position and separates the page from the predetermined member at a destination position. The page is moved with the predetermined member. The drive unit drives the turning mechanism to make the predetermined member perform a to-and-fro movement between the departure position and the destination position. The control unit which controls the drive unit to temporarily stop the movement of the predetermined member on a way to the destination position from the departure position.

An apparatus which turns a page of an open book includes a tuning mechanism, a drive unit and a control unit. The turning mechanism brings a predetermined member into contact with a page at a departure position and separates the page from the predetermined member at a destination position. The page is moved with the predetermined member. The drive unit drives the turning mechanism to make the predetermined member perform a to-and-fro movement between the departure position and the destination position. The control unit which controls the drive unit to temporarily stop the movement of the predetermined member on a way to the destination position from the departure position.

An image processing apparatus includes a first correction amount acquiring unit and a first correction unit. The first correction amount acquiring unit acquires a first luminance correction amount of each block based on the luminance of each pixel in the block obtained by dividing a first image among multiple processing target images obtained by imaging a target object with multiple sheets bound together while opening the target object. The first correction unit corrects the luminance of each pixel in the multiple processing target images based on the first luminance correction amount of each block acquired by the first correction amount acquiring unit.

A user is allowed to set contents of imaging work for digitization of a book using a page turning device to turn over each page of the book in a spread state from an original position to a destination position and settings of the imaging work are stored in advance. When a user commands initiation of the imaging work, the stored settings are confirmed and an imaging operation screen to present, to the user, guidance information related to an imaging procedure corresponding to the settings is separately displayed.