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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2005
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2002
Mauritius Seeger, Royston, GB;
Stuart A. Taylor, Cambridge, GB;
Christopher R. Dance, Cambridge, GB;
Mauritius Seeger, Royston, GB;
Stuart A. Taylor, Cambridge, GB;
Christopher R. Dance, Cambridge, GB;
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A document image capture (scanning) system and control method are described for scanning and processing document images received live from a camera. A motion detector detects image motion between two image frames. When the image is stationary, image processing (such as OCR) is carried out automatically and made available to the operator. In one form, when movement is detected, the image processing results are discarded until the image is newly stationary, whereupon new image processing is carried out on the new image. In another form, the degree of movement is evaluated; if the movement is small, then at least some of the previous image processing results are re-used by re-mapping on to the new image.