Patent ID: 7688475
Filing Date: 2010-03-30
Classification: G03G,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of processing, as one or more separate files, image information read from a plurality of papers provided on a paper feeder to be stored in the one or more separate respective files according to one or more separate scan jobs, the method comprising: detecting a paper provided on the paper feeder; driving a motor to pick up the paper; determining whether the paper corresponds to a continuation of a current scan job by detecting identification information identifying the one or more separate scan jobs within the papers provided on the paper feeder, the identification information represented by whether there is a paper deformation at an edge of any of the one or more papers; incorporating the image information of the paper into a current file corresponding to the current scan job in response to the paper being determined to correspond to the continuation of the current scan job; storing the image information of the paper as image information corresponding to a new scan job in response to the paper being determined not to correspond to the continuation of the current scan job; and repeating operations of this method in response to another paper existing on the paper feeder, wherein the determining whether the paper corresponds to a continuation of the current scan job further comprises: receiving a first detect signal from a first detector detecting the paper provided from the paper feeder, and a second detect signal from a second detector provided so as to correspond with a left or right side of the paper and offset by a predetermined distance from the first detector in the direction of the paper; and identifying the paper as a start paper of the current scan job in response to the first detect signal and the second detect signal being activated sequentially within a predetermined time interval.