Patent ID: 7489418

Claim:
A sensing method for a scanner, wherein the scanner comprises an image sensor, and wherein the image sensor comprises a first row of sensors and a second row of sensors, the sensing method comprising: scanning a first document portion with the first row of sensors and concurrently scanning a second document portion with the second row of sensors, wherein the first and the second document portions are not adjacent to each other; scanning a third document portion with the first row of sensors and concurrently scanning a fourth document portion with the second row of sensors, wherein the third document portion partially overlaps the first document portion; and processing first scanned image data associated with the first document portion and second scanned image data associated with the third document portion to generate third image data of the partially overlapped document portion, wherein a resolution of the third image data is greater than a resolution of at least one of the first scanned image data and the second scanned image data.