Scanner and scanning method
AssigneeFunai Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorShinichi Kamisoyama
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Abstract
A scanner apparatus including an image sensor includes a spread position acquisition portion that acquires a center position of a medium placed on a scan area; an effective area determination portion that determines an effective area of the scan area occupied by the medium based on the acquired center position; a data acquisition portion that scans the determined effective area by the image sensor; and a memory that stores data of the scanned effective area in two pieces split at the center position.
Claims18
A scanner apparatus comprising an image sensor, the scanner apparatus comprising:
- a spread position acquisition portion that acquires a center position of a medium placed on a scan area;
- an effective area determination portion that determines an effective area of the scan area occupied by the medium based on the acquired center position;
- a data acquisition portion that scans the determined effective area by the image sensor;
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- a memory that stores data of the scanned effective area in two pieces split at the center position.
A scanning method executed by an apparatus having an image sensor, comprising:
- acquiring a center position of a medium placed on a scan area;
- determining an effective area of the scan area occupied by the medium based on the acquired center position;
- scanning the determined effective area by the image sensor;
- splitting data of the scanned effective area into two pieces at the center position;
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- storing on a memory the two pieces of the data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.