User interface for initiating a final scan using drag and drop

• US 20040212835A1
• Filed: 05/19/2004
• Published: 10/28/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 10/01/1998
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Jeffrey P. Lee, Patricia D. Lopez, Theodore W. Neff
• Original Assignee: Jeffrey P. Lee, Patricia D. Lopez, Theodore W. Neff
• Inventors: Neff, Theodore W., Lee, Jeffrey P., Lopez, Patricia D.
• Application Number:
  US10/848,846
• Publication Number:
  US 20040212835A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/3873 defined only by a limited number of coordinate points or parameters, e.g. corners, centre; for trimming

Abstract

A user interface method for launching an optimized final scan of a selected region of interest selected from a preview scan of a document. A user may drag the selected region of interest, presented in a preview scan of a document in a scanner window, and drop it on a software application, the desktop, or a writeable folder, which launches an optimized final scan of the selected region of interest. The image data resulting from the optimized final scan automatically resides in the software application, the desktop, or the writeable folder. In selecting a region of interest from the preview scan, scanner software parameters are updated with information about the region of interest which optimize the final scan. The image data from the optimized final scan is then formatted in the format requested and delivered to the software application, the desktop, or the writeable folder.

Claims

1-23. -23. (Cancelled)

24. A method of scanning a document, comprising:

displaying, by scanner software, preview scan data generated in response to a preview scan of the document;

selecting a region of interest in the preview scan data;

presenting, from scanner software to an application software, one or more data formats for the selected region of interest;

receiving selection, by the application software, of one of the one or more data formats;

launching a second scan of the document; and

storing data relating to the second scan of the document in the selected one data format.

25. The method of claim 24, further comprising:

the scanner software determining a data type of the selected region of interest; and

the scanner software presenting the one or more data formats associated with the determined data type.

26. The method of claim 24, further comprising:

receiving user input indicating selection of the application software; and

in response to the user input indicating selection of the application software, the application software receiving the presented one or more data formats.

27. The method of claim 26, further comprising:

the application software determining whether any one of the presented one or more data formats is acceptable to the application software; and

in response to the application software determining that any one of the presented one or more data formats is acceptable, the application software notifying the scanner software that the application software is able to receive scan data.

28. The method of claim 27, further comprising:

in response to the application software determining that none of the one or more data formats is acceptable, the application software causing presentation of an indicator that receipt of scan data is not allowed.

29. The method of claim 24, further comprising:

receiving a click input at a location on the displayed preview scan data; and

evaluating preview scan data around the location of the click input to identify the region of interest.

30. The method of claim 24, further comprising:

displaying a window for the application software;

receiving user input indicating that the selected region of interest is to be moved to the window for the application software,

wherein receiving the selection of the one or more data formats and launching the second scan are performed in response to the user input.

31. The method of claim 24, further comprising:

displaying a desktop on a computer;

receiving user input indicating that the selected region of interest is to be moved to the desktop,

wherein receiving the selection of the one or more data formats and launching the second scan are performed in response to the user input; and

displaying an icon representing the data relating to the second scan in the desktop.

32. A system of scanning data, comprising:

scanner software;

a monitor to display preview scan data generated in response to a preview scan of a document launched by the scanner software,

the scanner software to select a region of interest in the preview scan data in response to user input; and

an application software to receive one or more data formats for the selected region of interest from the scanner software,

the application software to select one of the one or more data formats,

the scanner software to launch a second scan of the document and to store data relating to the second scan of the document in the selected one data format.

33. The system of claim 32, wherein the scanner software is adapted to:

determine a data type of the selected region of interest, and

present the one or more data formats associated with the determined data type.

34. The system of claim 32, wherein the application software is adapted to:

determine whether any one of the presented one or more data formats is acceptable to the application software, and

in response to determining that any one of the presented one or more data formats is acceptable, notify the scanner software that the application software is able to receive scan data.