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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 22, 2001
Masahiko Muranami, San Jose, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
An input device functions as both a pointing device and a scanning device. The input device can have a switch with a first position in which the input device functions as a pointing device and a second position in which the input device functions as a scanning device. When operating as a scanning device, the input device can have two modes of scanning operation: a document scan mode and a virtual scan mode. In the document scan mode, the input device can scan an image on a document page. In the virtual scan mode, the input device can scan an image on an electronic page. The input device can include a multi-functional scanning system that can scan an image horizontally, vertically, or any angle diagonally relative to a document or electronic page.