Continuous scanning method with a multi-page preview function

• US 20070013972A1
• Filed: 07/14/2006
• Published: 01/18/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/15/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Avision, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Avision, Inc.
• Inventors: Sheng, Thomas
• Application Number:
  US11/486,024
• Publication Number:
  US 20070013972A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/474
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00795 Reading arrangements details of scanning heads H04N1/024; scanning arrangements therefor H04N1/04
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00811 according to user specified instructions, e.g. user selection of reading mode

Abstract

A continuous scanning method with a multi-page preview function includes the steps of scanning a first former document having a first format to obtain a first image signal; scanning a second former document having a second format different from the first format to obtain a second image signal; displaying a first image corresponding to the first image signal for a user to preview; displaying a second image corresponding to the second image signal for the user to preview; receiving a first configuration and a second configuration, which are set by the user and respectively correspond to the first and second former documents; and continuously scanning or processing a first latter document having the first format and a second latter document having the second format according to the first and second configurations, respectively.

Claims

1. A continuous scanning method, comprising:

a first scanning step of scanning a first former document having a first format to obtain a first image signal;

a second scanning step of scanning a second former document having a second format, which is different from the first format, to obtain a second image signal;

a first displaying step of displaying a first image corresponding to the first image signal for a user to preview;

a second displaying step of displaying a second image corresponding to the second image signal for the user to preview;

a step of receiving a first configuration and a second configuration, which are set by the user and corresponding to the first former document and the second former document, respectively; and

a step of continuously scanning or processing a first later document and a second later document respectively having the first format and the second format according to the first configuration and the second configuration.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising a step of:

outputting an indicating signal to indicate the user placement information of the first later document or the second later document.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the indicating signal is an audio signal or an optical signal.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first scanning step, the first displaying step, the second scanning step and the second displaying step are performed in order.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first scanning step, the second scanning step, the first displaying step and the second displaying step are performed in order.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first scanning step and the second scanning step are performed in order, and then the first displaying step and the second displaying step are performed simultaneously.

7. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

a third scanning step of scanning a third former document having a third format to obtain a third image signal;

a third displaying step of displaying a third image corresponding to the third image signal for the user to preview;

a step of receiving a third configuration, which is set by the user and corresponds to the third former document; and

a step of continuously scanning or processing the first later document, the second later document and a third later document respectively having the first format, the second format and the third format according to the first to third configurations.

8. The method according to claim 7, further comprising a step of:

outputting an indicating signal to indicate the user placement information of the first later document, the second later document or the third later document.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the indicating signal is an audio signal or an optical signal.

10. The method according to claim 7, further comprising:

a fourth scanning step of scanning a fourth former document having a fourth format to obtain a fourth image signal;

a fourth displaying step of displaying a fourth image corresponding to the fourth image signal for the user to preview;

a step of receiving a fourth configuration, which is set by the user and corresponds to the fourth former document; and

a step of continuously scanning or processing the first later document, the second later document, the third later document and a fourth later document respectively having the first format, the second format, the third format and the fourth format according to the first to fourth configurations.

11. The method according to claim 10, further comprising a step of:

outputting an indicating signal to indicate the user placement information of the first later document, the second later document, the third later document or the fourth later document.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein the indicating signal is an audio signal or an optical signal.

13. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first later document or the second later document cannot be scanned until the user turns on a switch.

14. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first configuration or the second configuration comprises a cropping region parameter, a rotation angle parameter, an OCR (optical character recognition) parameter of a specific region, a bar code identification parameter, a black-and-white or color scan mode setting parameter or a background filtering parameter.

15. The method according to claim 14, wherein the cropping region parameter comprises at least one of resolution, brightness and contrast.