High-speed book scanner works as pages turn

[Shadowplay]

Hopefully this isn't posted somewhere already, but I couldn't find any sign of it.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/b...ps-turbo-mode/

Text from engadget:

No matter how fly or flashy modern scanners become, there's no getting away from their page-by-page assembly line style of operation. Or so we thought. The Ishikawa Komuro Lab at Tokyo University has demonstrated a prototype scanner capable of recording the contents of pages as they turn. Using a laser range projector to estimate page geometry, the camera adjusts for light and movement distortion as necessary and retains faithful copies of the original. At present it's more a proof of concept for the underlying vision processing unit than a commercial venture, but all it needs is one major manufacturer to pick it up and the paperless revolution can finally get started in earnest.

[Moejoe]

I love it Johnny 5 is alive!

[Ervserver]

J. K. Rowling won't like this I bet

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by Ervserver

J. K. Rowling won't like this I bet

JK is rolling in her piles of money and ignorance

[Kali Yuga]

Google supposedly uses a similar concept for their book scans.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/...lds-books.html

[Shadowplay]

Originally Posted by Kali Yuga

Google supposedly uses a similar concept for their book scans.

Ah thanks for that link. I wondered how on Earth they were scanning such a huge volume of books and now I know. I also wonder about the link in the article I posted because it sounds very much like Google's version. I guess it's in a different country so patents are a little tricky there.