Reading device reading original and estimating corner shape thereof
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorToshiki MOTOYAMA
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Abstract
A reading device includes: a reader; and a controller. The reader is configured to read both of a sheet of paper and a card as an original. The controller is, when the card having four original corners is set as the original, configured to perform for implementing a card reading function: (a) reading; and (b) acquiring. The (a) reading reads the original with the reader to acquire original image data corresponding to an original image area having four corner regions. The (b) acquiring acquires edge information of a first original corner from the original image data to estimate a round shape of the first original corner using the edge information. The first original corner being one of the four original corners in the original.
Claims15
A reading device comprising:
- a reader configured to read both of a sheet of paper and a card as an original;
- a controller, when the card having four original corners is set as the original, configured to perform for implementing a card reading function:
- (a) reading the original with the reader to acquire original image data corresponding to an original image area having four corner regions;
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- (b) acquiring edge information of a first original corner from the original image data to estimate a round shape of the first original corner using the edge information, the first original corner being one of the four original corners in the original.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.