Patent ID: 8154775

Claim:
A book scanner using a digital camera, comprising: a main body, including a housing opened at a top thereof and having an inner space, and a table made of a transparent material and disposed to cover the opened top of the housing, wherein the table provides a place on which a book to be scanned is unfolded; illuminating units disposed in the main body and configured to irradiate light to the table so that images of left and right pages of the book can be projected from the table; a digital camera mounted on an inside bottom of the housing and having a lens installed thereon in such manner as to be oriented toward the center of the table from the inside bottom of the housing, the digital camera being configured to capture and scan left and right images of the book, using the light emitted from the illuminating units; fixed mirrors disposed on left and right sides of the digital camera, respectively, at the inside bottom of the housing and disposed under the table, wherein the fixed mirrors are configured to primarily reflect images of the left and right pages of the book, which are projected from the table, toward the digital camera; and a rotating mirror supported by a support member, which stands upright at the inside bottom of the housing, and disposed over the digital camera, wherein the rotating mirror is configured to secondarily reflect images of the left and right pages of the book, which are reflected from the fixed mirrors, toward the digital camera selectively while rotating left and right according to external manipulation so that the digital camera can scan the book.