BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
Illustrative aspects in accordance with the invention will be described in detail with reference to the following figures wherein:
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an image-reading device and a personal computer;
FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a multifunction device;
FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a control panel on the multifunction device;
FIG. 4 is a screen shot of a dialog window for setting a scanning mode;
FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing a “page type” pull-down menu;
FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing a “page number detection region” pull-down menu;
FIG. 7 is a flowchart illustrating steps in a image reading process;
FIGS. 8(
a)-8(d) are explanatory diagrams showing an example of the page number detection region;
FIG. 9 is a flowchart illustrating steps in a process for displaying a page number detection region;
FIGS. 10(
a) and 10(b) are explanatory diagrams illustrating an example for calculating the page number detection region;
FIG. 11 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of adding the page number detection region;
FIG. 12 is an explanatory diagram showing another example of adding the page number detection region;
FIG. 13 is a flowchart illustrating steps in a scanning process;
FIG. 14 is a flowchart illustrating steps in a page sorting process;
FIG. 15 is a table showing the storage format of scanned data;
FIGS. 16(
a)-16(c) are explanatory diagrams showing an example of a page number table;
FIG. 17 is a flowchart illustrating steps in a process for confirming the page number table;
FIG. 18 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of the page number table used in the process of FIG. 17;
FIG. 19 is a flowchart illustrating steps in a usual scanning process;
FIG. 20 is a flowchart illustrating steps in a modification of a page sorting process;
FIGS. 21(
a) and 21(b) are explanatory diagrams showing an example of a page number table used in the process of FIG. 20;
FIGS. 22(
a) and 22(b) are explanatory diagrams showing another example of a page number table used in the process of FIG. 20;
FIG. 23 is a screen shot showing a dialog window for setting the scanning mode of a second embodiment;
FIG. 24 is a flowchart illustrating steps in an image reading process for the second embodiment;
FIG. 25 is a table showing a storage format example for the page number detection region.
FIG. 26 is a flowchart illustrating steps in a process for displaying the page number detection region for the second embodiment;
FIGS. 27(
a)-27(c) are explanatory diagrams showing an example of editing the page number detection region;
FIG. 28 is a flowchart illustrating steps in a process for calculating the page number detection region of the second embodiment;
FIG. 29 is a screen shot showing a dialog window for setting the scanning mode of a third embodiment;
FIG. 30 is a flowchart illustrating steps in an image reading process of the third embodiment;
FIG. 31 is a flowchart illustrating steps in a process for searching page type and page number detection region;
FIG. 32 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of the page number detection region;
FIG. 33 is a flowchart illustrating steps in a scanning process of a fourth embodiment;
FIG. 34 is a flowchart illustrating steps in a filename setting process; and
FIG. 35 is a flowchart illustrating steps in another filename setting process.
Patent Application
20070195378
