System and method for automatic region selection

摘要

Automatic region selection logic (110) allows the automatic identification of regions of interest (152) within an image (150) to be scanned based upon the color (155, 157) of the region of interest (152). A user of a scanner (11) indicates a region (152), or regions, of interest on an image (150) to be scanned by highlighting (155, 157) the particular region of interest (152) using any device that imparts to the region of interest (152) a color that does not appear elsewhere on the image (150) to be scanned. The automatic region selection logic (110) recognizes the region of interest (152) by, for example, its saturation and hue values and presents the selected region (152) to the user through a display (19). Multiple region types may be indicated on the same document (150) by using different colors to distinguish between the different types of regions of interest.