Hand-held image capture apparatus with scanning arrangement

An image capture apparatus has a combined electronic camera and swipe scanner. The electronic camera has an optical system and detector array for remote capturing of a first image. The swipe scanner has an optical system and detector array for swipe capturing of a second image. The image capture app...

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Main Authors Brown, Barry Allen Thomas, I'Anson, Colin Stephen, Loh, Weng Wah, Morgan, Andrew Dudley, O'Hara, Kenton Paul Anthony, Romans, Christopher Gwyn, Sellen, Abigail Jane
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 21.03.2006
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Summary:An image capture apparatus has a combined electronic camera and swipe scanner. The electronic camera has an optical system and detector array for remote capturing of a first image. The swipe scanner has an optical system and detector array for swipe capturing of a second image. The image capture apparatus further has a data storage arranged to store the first image and the second image in association with each other. The electronic camera may be a moderate resolution color camera, and the swipe scanner may have a grey-scale detector array capable of scanning an object at a higher resolution than the camera. A display is provided so that both images can be viewed separately in association with each other, or combined into a combination image, which has color information from the camera to colorize higher resolution pixels from the scanner.