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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2015
Hand Held Products, Inc., Fort Mill, SC (US);
Andrew Longacre, Jr., Dorset, VT (US);
Thomas Hawley, Skaneateles, NY (US);
Matthew Pankow, Camillus, NY (US);
Hand Held Products, Inc., Fort Mill, SC (US);
Abstract
A method of operating an image reader typically includes: searching a digital image for nominally straight edges; characterizing the nominally straight edges in terms of length and/or direction; determining a predominant orientation of the nominally straight edges; establishing a group of edges as a function of their proximity to the center of the image; establishing a group of edges as a function of their proximity to other remaining edge positions; and transmuting a rectangle bounding those edges into a rectified image. The rectified image is typically an image that is cropped or rotated.