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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 01, 2005
Applicant:
Kazumi Yamada, Nagano-ken, JP;
Inventor:
Kazumi Yamada, Nagano-ken, JP;
Assignee:
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/40 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01); H04N 1/409 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In the process of control of an image scanning device that creates image data by scanning an image from a recording medium on which the image is recorded, the image scanning device is controlled to acquire first image data by scanning the image at a first scanning resolution; image type is judged on the basis of this first image data; and in the process of controlling the image scanning device to scan the image at a second scanning resolution, second image data is acquired under image acquisition conditions dependent on the image type indicated by the judgment result in the image judgment step.