Michael Schnee
90Patents
30h-index
55Co-inventors
87Inventor score
Filing activity: Jun 7, 2000 → May 16, 2013
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US7128266B2 | Hand-supportable digital imaging-based bar code symbol reader supporting narrow-area and wide-area modes of illumination and image capture | Physics | 688 | Expired |
| US8457013B2 | Wireless dual-function network device dynamically switching and reconfiguring from a wireless network router state of operation into a wireless network coordinator state of operation in a wireless communication network | Electricity | 590 | Active |
| US9030964B2 | Wireless network device | Electricity | 491 | Active |
| US7527205B2 | Automated package dimensioning system | Physics | 189 | Active |
| US6971580B2 | AUTOMATED METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR DIMENSIONING OBJECTS OVER A CONVEYOR BELT STRUCTURE BY APPLYING CONTOURING TRACING, VERTICE DETECTION, CORNER POINT DETECTION, AND CORNER POINT REDUCTION METHODS TO TWO-DIMENSIONAL RANGE DATA MAPS OF THE SPACE ABOVE THE CONVEYOR BELT CAPTURED BY AN AMPLITUDE MODULATED LASER SCANNING BEAM | Physics | 172 | Expired |
| US7104453B1 | Unitary package identification and dimensioning system employing ladar-based scanning methods | Physics | 133 | Expired |
| US6705526B1 | AUTOMATED METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR DIMENSIONING OBJECTS TRANSPORTED THROUGH A WORK ENVIRONMENT USING CONTOUR TRACING, VERTICE DETECTION, CORNER POINT DETECTION, AND CORNER POINT REDUCTION METHODS ON TWO-DIMENSIONAL RANGE DATA MAPS CAPTURED BY AN AMPLITUDE MODULATED LASER SCANNING BEAM | Physics | 118 | Expired |
| US6913202B2 | Planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) engine | Electricity | 83 | Expired |
| US6742707B1 | METHOD OF SPECKLE-NOISE PATTERN REDUCTION AND APPARATUS THEREFOR BASED ON REDUCING THE SPATIAL-COHERENCE OF THE PLANAR LASER ILLUMINATION BEAM BEFORE THE BEAM ILLUMINATES THE TARGET OBJECT BY APPLYING SPATIAL PHASE SHIFTING TECHNIQUES DURING THE TRANSMISSION OF THE PLIB THERETOWARDS | Electricity | 78 | Expired |
| US6827265B2 | Automatic vehicle identification and classification (AVIC) system employing a tunnel-arrangement of PLIIM-based subsystems | Electricity | 75 | Expired |
| US7086595B2 | METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING CAPTURED DIGITAL IMAGES OF OBJECTS WITHIN A SEMI-AUTOMATIC HAND-SUPPORTABLE IMAGING-BASED BAR CODE SYMBOL READER SO AS TO READ 1D AND/OR 2D BAR CODE SYMBOLS GRAPHICALLY REPRESENTED THEREIN | Physics | 71 | Expired |
| US7240844B2 | Hand-suportable imaging-based bar code symbol reader employing an automatic light exposure measurement and illumination control subsystem for measuring illumination exposure on CMOS image sensing array and controlling LED illumination array driver circuitry | Physics | 62 | Expired |
| US7490774B2 | Hand-supportable imaging based bar code symbol reader employing automatic light exposure measurement and illumination control subsystem integrated therein | Physics | 58 | Expired |
| US7281661B2 | Hand-supportable digital imaging-based bar code symbol reading system employing a method of intelligently illuminating an object so as to generate a digital image thereof which is substantially free of noise caused by specular-type reflection | Physics | 55 | Expired |
| US6978936B2 | Method of and system for automatically producing digital images of moving objects, with pixels having a substantially uniform white level independent of the velocities of the moving objects | Electricity | 53 | Expired |
| US6971577B2 | Method of and system for automatically producing digital images of a moving object, with pixels having a substantially uniform white level independent of the velocity of said moving object | Electricity | 53 | Expired |
| US6830185B2 | Method of and system for automatically producing digital images of a moving object, with pixels having a substantially uniform white level independent of the velocity of said moving object | Electricity | 51 | Expired |
| US7185817B2 | Hand-supportable digital imaging-based bar codes symbol reader employing multi-mode subsystems | Physics | 44 | Expired |
| US7237722B2 | Hand-supported imaging-based bar code symbol reader employing a multi-mode image-processing based bar code reading subsystem with modular image-processing architecture | Physics | 40 | Expired |
| US7490778B2 | Method of reading code symbols using a hand-supportable digital image capturing and processing device employing a micro-computing platform supporting an event-driven multi-tier modular software architecture | Physics | 39 | Active |
| US6629641B2 | Method of and system for producing images of objects using planar laser illumination beams and image detection arrays | Electricity | 39 | Expired |
| US7320431B2 | Digital imaging-based bar code symbol reading system employing a multi-mode illumination subsystem with far-field and near field led-based illumination arrays | Physics | 38 | Expired |
| US7357325B2 | Hand-supportable imaging-based bar code symbol reader employing a CMOS-type image sensor using global exposure techniques | Physics | 37 | Expired |
| US7255279B2 | Hand-supportable digital imaging-based bar code reading system wherein, during each imaging cycle, a single frame of pixel data is automatically detected by a CMOS area-type image sensing array when substantially all rows of pixels therein are in a state of integration and have a common integration time, and then pixel data is transmitted from said CMOS area-type image sensing array into a FIFO buffer, and then mapped into memory for subsequent image processing | Physics | 35 | Expired |
| US7513430B2 | Digital image capturing and processing system employing an area-type image sensing array exposed to narrow-band illumination from a narrow-band illumination subsystem for a time duration controlled using a photodetector operated independently from said area-type image sensing array | Physics | 34 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.