IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM

• US 20140168506A1
• Filed: 11/05/2013
• Published: 06/19/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: PFU Limited (Fujitsu Limited)
• Original Assignee: PFU Limited (Fujitsu Limited)
• Inventors: KASAHARA, Yuki
• Granted Patent: US 9,325,909 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/370
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00307 with a mobile telephone apparatus constructional features of portable telephone sets H04M1/0202; mobile radio systems H04W84/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00381 Input by recognition or interpretation of visible user gestures manual input means, e.g. digitisers, writing tablets H04N1/00392; gesture input to computers G06F3/017; recognition algorithms G06V40/20
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/19594 using a television camera or a still video camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0436 Scanning a picture-bearing surface lying face up on a support H04N2201/0434 takes precedence; using cylindrical picture bearing surfaces H04N1/06; with manual scanning H04N1/107
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/00 Cameras or camera modules comprising electronic image sensors; Control thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/60 Control of cameras or camera modules
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/70 Circuitry for compensating brightness variation in the scene
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/74 by influencing the scene brightness using illuminating means

Abstract

An image capturing system includes a smartphone serving as an imaging unit, and a mounting stand to be disposed on a medium setting surface on which a medium serving as a reading target is set. The mounting stand has a placement surface on which the smartphone is placed at a position allowing the smartphone to image the medium set on the medium setting surface. When generating a starting trigger based on image information of an imaging area in the state where the smartphone is placed on the mounting stand, the smartphone executes a function (scanning operation) associated with the starting trigger.

Claims

1. An image capturing system, comprising:

an imaging unit; and

a mounting stand to be disposed on a medium setting surface on which a medium serving as a reading target is set, the mounting stand having a placement surface on which the imaging unit is placed at a position allowing the imaging unit to image the medium set on the medium setting surface, wherein

when the imaging unit generates a starting trigger based on image information of an imaging area in a state where the imaging unit is placed on the mounting stand, the imaging unit executes a function associated with the starting trigger.

2. The image capturing system according to claim 1, wherein the starting trigger is generated when the imaging unit detects that a finger is placed in a predetermined determination area in the imaging area.

3. The image capturing system according to claim 1, wherein

the mounting stand includes a light source,

the imaging area of the imaging unit placed on the mounting stand is set such that the imaging area includes the light source, and

the starting trigger is generated when the imaging unit detects an optical signal output from the light source in accordance with a motion of a user with respect to the mounting stand.

4. The image capturing system according to claim 1, wherein the image capturing system includes a plurality of sets of the starting trigger and the function associated with the starting trigger.