科技动态:新技术让你一分钟扫描一本书?

Simply flipping² through a book may not seem like the best way to scan it, but a Japanese research team at Tokyo University has created a software that scans hundreds of pages within minutes.

只是翻翻书并不能扫描书中的内容，但日本东京大学一只研究组正在发明一种能在几分钟内扫描上百页书籍的软件。

Until now, scanning paper has been a tedious process in which pages one by one must be inserted into a flatbed scanner. But this new invention uses a high speed camera that takes 500 pictures per second to scan pages as they're flipped³. The invention is able to scan a 200 to 250 page book in about 60 seconds using basic computer hardware available off shelf.

直到现在，扫描书籍都是一项沉闷冗长的工作，因为这项工作需要手动将书籍一页一页附在扫描仪的平台上。但这项新发明运用了一种高速相机，每秒能拍摄500张图片，能在翻书过程中完成扫面工作。这项发明应用最基本的电脑硬件就能完成，能够在1分钟左右扫描完一本200到250的书籍。

It takes a shot of the shape then it calculates the shape and uses those calculations to film the scanning. As it can film while understanding the underlying⁴ shape, it's very easy to then take the pages that are being scanned and save them as a normal flat copy.

这种扫描方式首先需要拍摄下图书页面上的图案形状，接着在映出这些图案的同时解析这些图形，最后只要轻松保存这些图形就可以了。

While right now, it requires extra time to process the scanned images, the hope is to eventually make the technology faster and much smaller.

目前，这项技术还需要额外的时间来解析扫描到的图像，研究人员的最终目标是让这项技术更快，设备装置越来越小巧。

In the more distant future, once it becomes possible to put all of this processing on one chip, and then put that in an ipad or ipod, one could scan just using that chip. At that point, it becomes possible to scan something quickly to save for later reading.

将来，一旦技术允许将所有程序放进一枚芯片，那么将这枚芯片放入ipad或ipod，或者其他能扫描的设备中。这样，快速扫描稍后阅读将成为可能。

Being able to scan books with an iphone maybe further off, but a commercial version of the large scale computer-based scanning system could be available in 2 or 3 years, while the flip¹ scanner has the potential to take paper books into the digital age, it remains⁵ to be seen how publishers will feel about the new technology.

虽然用iphone扫描书籍还是很遥远，但使用电脑大规模扫描系统将在2到3年内实现。翻翻书就能扫描也许会将纸质书带入到电子书的时代，因此出版商们对这项新技术的看法还是个未知数。

Natalie Armstrong, Reuters.

Natalie Armstrong报道，路透社消息。

1 flip   

vt.快速翻动；轻抛；轻拍；n.轻抛；adj.轻浮的

参考例句：

• I had a quick flip through the book and it looked very interesting.我很快翻阅了一下那本书，看来似乎很有趣。
• Let's flip a coin to see who pays the bill.咱们来抛硬币决定谁付钱。

2 flipping   

讨厌之极的

参考例句：

• I hate this flipping hotel! 我讨厌这个该死的旅馆！
• Don't go flipping your lid. 别发火。

3 flipped   

轻弹( flip的过去式和过去分词 )； 按（开关）； 快速翻转； 急挥

参考例句：

• The plane flipped and crashed. 飞机猛地翻转，撞毁了。
• The carter flipped at the horse with his whip. 赶大车的人扬鞭朝着马轻轻地抽打。

4 underlying   

adj.在下面的，含蓄的，潜在的

参考例句：

• The underlying theme of the novel is very serious.小说隐含的主题是十分严肃的。
• This word has its underlying meaning.这个单词有它潜在的含义。

5 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。