Umax Data Systems, Inc.

Wei-Jen Huang

Ming-Mu Hsieh

Hsi-Chin Chen

Alpha Tsay

Shi-Zheng Kuo

Hsin-Chung Chang

A batch scanning method for an image input system includes sorting a plurality of image areas according to top positions of said image areas. A calibration mode is set. Next, top, bottom, left and right positions of the present image area, and the top position of the next higher image area are set to some registers. Thereafter, the image input system is calibrated when the present image area is the highest image area of the sorted areas. Then, the present image area is scanned. Afterward, a light source and a photodetector are moved to the top position of said next higher image area when at least one image area has not been scanned. The position setting step, the scanning step and the moving step are repeated until the lowest image area has been scanned.

Batch scanning method for an image input system

A novel method for scanning multiple images in a single scanning process is disclosed. The process utilizes at least a frame holder, which contains a front frame section and a back frame section that are glued together at their top edges and are separable at least at their bottom to allow a sheet of scanning material to be placed therebetween. Each of the front and back frame sections contains a cluster of matching orientation holes on their right and left sides with a predetermined pattern to allow a computer program to achieve scan area recognition and orientation. During the scanning process, the at least one frame holder containing the image is scanned, wherein the sides of the frame holder are detected as black signals and the orientation holes are detected as white signals. Then a computer program is used to perform a previewing recognition process by detecting and carving out a scanning area corresponding to each frame holder based on the black signals and the white signals of the frame holder. The frame holder can contain a plurality of scanning windows, and more than one frame holder can be utilized in the same scanning process.

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Wei-Jen Huang