METHOD FOR SCANNING AND DETECTING MANY PHOTOGRAPHS AND REMOVING ARTIFICIAL EDGE

Japanese Patent JP3883696

B2

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for scanning many photographs, deciding the number, position and inclination angle of the photographs and trimming images so as to remove artificial edges.
SOLUTION: The plural photographs are installed on a scanner (step 32) and low resolution scanning is performed (step 31). Then, plural polygons provided with low resolution images are formed (step 36) and the number of the polygons is decided (step 38). Then, the number of the polygons is compared with the number of the photographs (step 40), and in the case that the number of the polygons is less than the number of the photographs, the overlapped photographs are rearranged (step 42), the low resolution scanning is performed and succeeding steps are repeatedly performed. Then, the inclination angle and position of the respective photographs are decided (step 44) and a first photograph is selected (step 46). Then, the first photograph is scanned by a high resolution (step 50) and the inclination of high resolution images is corrected (step 52). Then, the high resolution images are trimmed so as to remove the artificial edges.

Yang Chun Lee
Quinton Lamar Sowell

JP12516798A

February 21, 2007

March 31, 1998

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Eastman Kodak Company

G03G13/34; H04N1/00; H04N1/387; H04N1/04; H04N1/10; H04N1/107; H04N1/40; (IPC1-7): H04N1/387; G03G13/34; H04N1/40

JP6007360U
JP7182490A
JP3105691A
JP8153209A
JP2143379A

Masatake Shiga
Tadashi Takahashi
Takashi Watanabe
Masakazu Aoyama
Suzuki Mitsuyoshi
Yutaka Matsutomi
Kazuya Nishi
Kenichi Imamura
Yasuhiko Murayama
Mitsuru Oba

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