Method for automatically identifying scan area
AssigneeTranspacific Systems, LLC
InventorWen-Yung Huang
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Abstract
In accordance with the present invention, a method for automatically identifying a scan area by a scanner is disclosed. The method comprises steps of scanning an original comprising an object, identifying the original to establish a location and a profile of the object in the original, displaying a preview window corresponding to the original, wherein a location and a profile of a confined area is exactly the location and the profile of the object, receiving a framed area selected from the preview window by user, wherein a portion of the framed area beyond the confined area is automatically removed to generate a scan area, and scanning the scan area. The present invention can also extend to a method for selecting a scan area by a user and a scanner with a feature of automatically identifying a scan area.
Claims35
A method, comprising:
- generating a preview of a scanned original, wherein the scanned original comprises one or more objects, and wherein the preview comprises a profile for each of the one or more objects;
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- determining a scan area based, at least in part, on a confined area associated with a selection of at least one of the one or more objects, wherein the profile of the selected one or more objects defines the confined area.
An apparatus, comprising:
- means for scanning an original comprising one or more objects;
- means for generating a preview window of the scanned original, wherein the preview window includes a profile for each of the one or more objects, and wherein the profile defines an enclosed area of the preview window;
- means for defining a scan area to include at least a portion of the one or more objects;
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- means for scanning the scan area.
A method, comprising:
- generating a preview window of a scanned original comprising one or more objects, wherein the preview window includes a profile of the one or more objects, and wherein the profile defines a confined area of the preview window and corresponds to a location of the one or more objects of the scanned original;
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- defining a scan area to include the profile.
An apparatus, comprising:
- circuitry configured to scan an original to generate information;
- circuitry configured to determine a location of an object in the original and to determine a preview of the original, wherein both of the location and the preview are determined based, at least in part, on the generated information;
- circuitry configured to display the preview, wherein the preview includes a profile of the object;
- circuitry configured to receive a selection of at least a portion of the preview;
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- circuitry configured to scan the portion of the preview corresponding with the selection.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.