Patent ID: 6639697
Filing Date: 2003-10-28
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
An automatic slide feeder, comprising:a housing defining an input slide tray, an output slide tray and a scan slide tray; a slide actuator operatively associated with said housing, said slide actuator moving a slide from the input slide tray to the scan slide tray; and a control system operatively associated with said slide actuator and operatively associated with a document scanner, said control system operating the document scanner to scan a slide positioned in the scan slide tray and operating said slide actuator to move a new slide from the input slide tray to the scan slide tray after the slide positioned in the scan slide tray has been scanned, wherein the input slide tray, the output slide tray, and the scan slide tray are positioned side by side along a slide translation axis so that the scan slide tray is located between the input slide tray and the output slide tray.