Patent ID: 6236770
Filing Date: 2001-05-22
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
A scanning method of an image scanning system for scanning a plurality of designated areas, the system comprising a transparent platform having front, rear, left and right ends for placing documents, and a scanning module for scanning the designated areas within the platform in a front-to-rear direction, the scanning method comprising:(1) checking if any two or more designated areas are folded along a front-to-rear direction; if so, separating each of the folded designated areas along a left-and-right direction into at least one folding section and possibly non-folding sections if there is any, and defining all the folded folding sections as one combined section;(2) using the scanning module to scan each non-folding designated area, non-folding section and combined section one by one from the front end to the rear end of the transparent platform in only one forward pass even if some designated areas are folded and generating a corresponding digital image for each; and(3) generating a digital image for each folded designated area from the digital images of the non-folding and combined sections of the folded designated area.