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From: kerhop@eskimo.com (Billy Laughlin)
Subject: Re: scanner sensor physical structure
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Xiangdong Liu (liu@csgrad.cs.vt.edu) wrote:
: Hello!  Does anyone know the geometric shape of the (probably CCD) sensors
: of commonly used scanners, such as HP ScanJet XX, in terms of coverage of
: the picture being scanned?  Is it circular, square, irregular?
: Does this shape affect what a sensor sees, therewith what a scanned
: pixel represent?  What are the common sizes of such sensors, in terms
: of sensor spacing?  If the diameter of sensors is smaller than the
: sensor spacing, should the sensor output be scaled?  Where can I find
: such information?  Thanks!

I do not such info, but am curious why you are asking about this
(read: this is NOT a flame about bandwidth waste) and how could this
info be useful to the rest of us?

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