Patent ID: 7133068

Claim:
A system for creating a still image of a target object by utilizing a video camera, comprising: a support device configured to transport said video camera across said target object during a scanning procedure to capture a contiguous frame sequence of video data corresponding to said target object; and a scanning manager coupled to said video camera for analyzing scan motion data from said scanning procedure, and responsively extracting still frames from said contiguous frame sequence at a selectable time interval to represent said target object as said still image, said selectable time interval being greater than a standard video frame duration from said contiguous frame sequence, said support device including a cradle that is initially positioned at a starting index of a scan track to allow said video camera to frame said target object using a focus mechanism and a zoom mechanism, a system user entering scan parameters into said video camera for performing said scanning procedure, said scan parameters including a scan speed control, a scan direction control, a still frame time interval control, a scan overlap control, and a scan resolution control.