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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2003
Applicant:
Markus Simon, Buckenhof, DE;
Inventor:
Markus Simon, Buckenhof, DE;
Assignee:
Palm, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/47 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01); H04N 5/228 (2006.01); H04N 5/222 (2006.01); G03B 17/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present disclosure illustrates an apparatus and method for scanning, in particular documents with the aid of a camera. The method includes combining an image sequence or a sequence of partial images in order to obtain a final image, and projecting a reference model onto the camera vision field and in compensating representational differences of different images on the basis of geometrical information of the model.