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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 09, 2012
Sunil H. Madhani, Karnataka, IN;
Sunil H. Madhani, Karnataka, IN;
Intuit Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
During an image-capture technique, a user of the electronic device may be instructed by an application executed by the electronic device (such as a software application) to point an imaging sensor, which is integrated into the electronic device, toward a location on a document. For example, the user may be instructed to point a cellular-telephone camera toward a field on an invoice. Then, when spatial-position information associated with the electronic device (such as spatial-position information associated with an accelerometer and/or a gyroscope integrated in the electronic device) remains within a predefined range for a predefined time duration, the electronic device communicates a signal to the imaging device to acquire the image. Note that the image may be acquired without additional action by the user.