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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 11, 1998
Philippe Joseph Ghislain Bossut, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Patrice Vallmajo, San Francisco, CA (US);
Roxio, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for operating a photo kiosk having a scanner therein, including positioning a user-provided picture on a scanner bed of the kiosk scanner in an arbitrary orientation, and automatically determining an orientation of the picture by pre-scanning, using the kiosk scanner, at least an area of the kiosk scanner bed having the picture positioned therein at a low resolution, to produce a pre-scanned image containing pixels therein, and scanning, using the kiosk scanner, an area of the scanner bed at a high resolution to provide a photo product having the picture in a desired orientation therein irrespective of the arbitrary orientation.