Patent Document ID: 9807269
Application ID: 14713077
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for low light image capture of a document image using a plurality of flash images from a single supplemental light source, the method comprising: first capturing a first image of a document with the supplemental light source wherein the first image has a first flash spot in a first flash spot region; second capturing a second image of the document with the supplemental light source wherein the second image has a second flash spot spaced from a position in the document of the first flash spot by a movement of the supplemental light source from a first position to a second position; and fusing the first and second images for an alignment of the first and second images to form a fused image, wherein the first flash spot region is replaced in the fused image with a corresponding portion of the second image wherein a boundary of the corresponding portion of the second image is selectively expanded to avoid splitting of characters and words by the fusing.