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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2000
Barry Allen Thomas Brown, Bristol, GB;
Colin Stephen I'anson, Bristol, GB;
Weng Wah Loh, Bristol, GB;
Andrew Dudley Morgan, Bristol, GB;
Kenton Paul Anthony O'hara, Bristol, GB;
Christopher Gwyn Romans, North Somerset, GB;
Abigail Jane Sellen, Newbury, GB;
Barry Allen Thomas Brown, Bristol, GB;
Colin Stephen I'Anson, Bristol, GB;
Weng Wah Loh, Bristol, GB;
Andrew Dudley Morgan, Bristol, GB;
Kenton Paul Anthony O'Hara, Bristol, GB;
Christopher Gwyn Romans, North Somerset, GB;
Abigail Jane Sellen, Newbury, GB;
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
An image capture apparatus has a combined electronic camera and swipe scanner. The electronic camera has an optical system and detector array for remote capturing of a first image. The swipe scanner has an optical system and detector array for swipe capturing of a second image. The image capture apparatus further has a data storage arranged to store the first image and the second image in association with each other. The electronic camera may be a moderate resolution color camera, and the swipe scanner may have a grey-scale detector array capable of scanning an object at a higher resolution than the camera. A display is provided so that both images can be viewed separately in association with each other, or combined into a combination image, which has color information from the camera to colorize higher resolution pixels from the scanner.