Patent ID: 6862116
Filing Date: 2005-03-01
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A document scanning apparatus for scanning a document, generating image data, and storing the image data, comprising: first scanning means for sequentially transporting documents mounted in a document tray to a scan position and scanning the documents at the scan position, thereby generating image data corresponding to the documents; second scanning means for scanning a document placed on a document glass plane without transporting the document, thereby generating image data corresponding to the document; continued instruction acceptance means for accepting an instruction for one of continuation of document scanning and completion of document scanning after one of: (i) the first scanning means scans all documents mounted in the document tray and (ii) the second scanning means scans the document placed on the document glass plane; selection means for responding to the instruction for continued document scan, accepted by the continued instruction acceptance means, and for selecting the first scanning means or the second scanning means according to a predetermined rule, and for allowing selected scanning means to start scanning additional documents; and storage control means for storing newly generated image data corresponding to the additional documents as additional image data subsequent to previously stored image data, wherein the first scanning means or the second scanning means provides the newly generated image data until the continued instruction acceptance means accepts the instruction for completing the scanning of documents.