From d1493c1a5020995889f0bcb9235ee7709375d86c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Davis King <davis@dlib.net>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 20:21:44 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Refined this object's interface slightly.

---
 dlib/image_processing/scan_image_boxes.h          |  3 +++
 dlib/image_processing/scan_image_boxes_abstract.h | 12 +++++++++---
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/dlib/image_processing/scan_image_boxes.h b/dlib/image_processing/scan_image_boxes.h
index ed211cfb7..196fa8556 100644
--- a/dlib/image_processing/scan_image_boxes.h
+++ b/dlib/image_processing/scan_image_boxes.h
@@ -71,6 +71,9 @@ namespace dlib
             const box_generator& bg
         );
 
+        const box_generator& get_box_generator (
+        ) const { return detect_boxes; } 
+
         inline void copy_configuration (
             const scan_image_boxes& item
         );
diff --git a/dlib/image_processing/scan_image_boxes_abstract.h b/dlib/image_processing/scan_image_boxes_abstract.h
index ed415b6e9..8c4bf6f4d 100644
--- a/dlib/image_processing/scan_image_boxes_abstract.h
+++ b/dlib/image_processing/scan_image_boxes_abstract.h
@@ -194,13 +194,19 @@ namespace dlib
         );
         /*!
             ensures
-                - Let BASE_BG denote the box_generator object used internally for candidate
-                  box generation.  Then this function performs:
-                    BASE_BG = bg;
+                - #get_box_generator() == bg
                   (i.e. this function allows you to configure the parameters of the
                   underlying box generator used by a scan_image_boxes object)
         !*/
 
+        const box_generator& get_box_generator (
+        ) const;
+        /*!
+            ensures
+                - returns the box_generator used by this object to generate candidate
+                  object locations.
+        !*/
+
         void copy_configuration (
             const scan_image_boxes& item
         );