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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2011
Applicants:
Bruce A. Link, Rochester, NY (US);
George E. Lathrop, Dansville, NY (US);
Inventors:
Bruce A. Link, Rochester, NY (US);
George E. Lathrop, Dansville, NY (US);
Assignee:
Kodak Alaris Inc., Rochester, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for scanning documents in a document scanner () includes transporting () documents from an input tray () to an document detection sensor (A-E); detecting documents with the document detection sensor; capturing image data for a document with an image capture device; determining characteristics of the document based on the image data with an image processor; comparing characteristics of the document to document detection sensor data; and excluding document detection sensor data which conflicts with the image data.