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 the 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 a 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.
Claims20
An apparatus, comprising:
- circuitry configured to scan an original comprising a plurality of objects including a first object and a second object;
- circuitry configured to generate a preview window of the scanned original, wherein the preview window includes a profile for the first object, and wherein the profile defines an enclosed area of the preview window;
- circuitry configured to remove the second object that is at least partially located outside of the enclosed area in defining a scan area that includes the enclosed area;
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- circuitry configured to scan the scan area.
An apparatus, comprising:
- circuitry configured to generate a preview of a scanned original, wherein the scanned original comprises one or more objects, and wherein the preview comprises a profile for the one or more objects;
- circuitry configured to determine a scan area based, at least in part, on a confined area associated with the one or more objects and on a removal of portions of the preview window that are beyond the confined area, wherein the profile of the one or more objects defines the confined area;
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- circuitry configured to scan the scan area after the portions are removed.
An apparatus, comprising:
- circuitry configured to generate 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;
- circuitry configured to identify portions of the preview window that are located outside of the confined area;
- circuitry configured to define a scan area to include the profile with the portions removed;
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- circuitry configured to scan the scan area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.