Cell Phone with Camera = Scanner

An anonymous reader writes "TechJapan has posted a translation of an Impress Watch Article regarding a new technology developed by NEC and the Nara Institute of Science and Technology, that lets people use their cellular phones with cameras as scanners. It says all you have to do is move your phone over the surface of the piece of paper while recording a movie, and the technology (some sort of software I presume) will construct a high resolution image from the individual frames of the video. Here is the original (Japanese) NEC press release." I'd love to see before and afters to see how well this works.

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A friend of mine purchased a new cannon digital camera that let you take 3 pictures in a "line" and it did the work of putting them together in order to create a panoramic image. I don't see that this is really all that different.

I didn't see her use the feature though, so how well it works, I dunno.