Notebook information processor and image reading method
US7903171B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 15, 2008 |
| Grant date | Mar 8, 2011 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 2, 2029 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04N2201/0436
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A notebook information processor includes an image photographing unit, a display, a keyboard, a storage unit, and a control unit, wherein the control unit includes, a live view displaying unit that displays a live view obtained by photographing at least a portion of the keyboard within a photographing area of the image photographing unit on the display, a still image obtaining unit that obtains a still image from the live view displayed on the display by the live view displaying unit, when receiving a photographing start signal to start photographing the still image of a document put on the keyboard, and an image processing unit that performs projective transformation on the still image obtained by the still image obtaining unit so as to obtain an image photographed from a front direction, executes image processing so as to perform cropping to clip the document, and stores a transformed image of the document after the image processing in the storage unit.
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