Patent ID: 8559063

Claim:
A document scanning system, comprising: a base element comprising a document placement deck; a neck element, positioned at a fixed distance from the document placement deck, comprising a head end and a base end and coupled to the base element at the base end; a doublet of lighting arms, positioned at a fixed distance from the document placement deck, comprising a first lighting arm, positioned at a fixed distance from the center point of the document placement deck, and a second lighting arm, positioned at a fixed distance from the center point of the document placement deck and positioned at a fixed distance from the first lighting arm, wherein: the first lighting arm and the second lighting arm are coupled to at least one of the base element and the neck element and are positioned above the base element, the first lighting arm comprises at least a first lighting element coupled to the first lighting arm and the second lighting arm comprises at least a second lighting element coupled to the second lighting arm; the first lighting element and the second lighting element is configured to emit a total light color temperature of between 4,100 to 5,900 Kelvin, the first lighting element and the second lighting element are positioned symmetrically with respect to the center point on the document placement deck, and the first lighting element and the second lighting element is configured to generate a combined brightness output on a top surface of the document placement deck of between 1,500 to 2,500 lux; a docking head coupled to the head end of the neck element and comprising an image capture opening and a docking cradle; a mobile device positioned in the docking cradle and having a user interface face of the mobile device directed away from the document placement deck and an image capture lens directed toward the document placement deck through the image capture opening to capture a scanned image; the first lighting element and the second lighting element, wherein the first lighting element and the second lighting element are non-planar, are configured to generate a luminosity difference between the darkest portion of the scanned image and the brightest portion of the scanned image between 0 to 25%; wherein the first lighting element is positioned at a fixed distance from the image capture opening and the second lighting element is positioned at a fixed distance from the image capture opening; and wherein the mobile device is at least one of a smartphone, a tablet computer, a digital audio player, a digital camera, and a personal digital assistant.