ACCELERATION-BASED MOTION TOLERANCE AND PREDICTIVE CODING

A method (10) of predicting the location of a region of interest within an image of a scannable object (13) comprising providing a scanner (12) having a processor (16) and an image sensor (22); sensing in a viewing direction toward a scannable object, with an imaging plane being perpendicular to the viewing direction; capturing an image of the scannable object with the image sensor (22); sensing motion of the scanner within a motion sensor plane relative to the scannable object (13), the motion sensor plane being parallel to the imaging plane; outputting a velocity and a movement direction corresponding to the velocity; locating a region of interest in said captured image in response to the velocity and the movement direction; and scanning the captured image beginning with the region of interest.