Inventor · Philadelphia, PA, US

Steven Essinger

24Patents
12h-index
27Co-inventors
73Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 20, 2006 → May 16, 2013

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
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
US7775436B2 Method of driving a plurality of visible and invisible LEDs so as to produce an illumination beam having a dynamically managed ratio of visible to invisible (IR) spectral energy/power during object illumination and imaging operations Physics 39 Active
US7954719B2 Tunnel-type digital imaging-based self-checkout system for use in retail point-of-sale environments Human Necessities 29 Active
US7546952B2 Method of illuminating objects during digital image capture operations by mixing visible and invisible spectral illumination energy at point of sale (POS) environments Physics 22 Active
US7588188B2 Pos-based digital image capturing and processing system using automatic object detection, spectral-mixing based illumination and linear imaging techniques Physics 18 Active
US7571858B2 POS-based digital image capturing and processing system using automatic object detection, spectral-mixing based illumination and linear imaging techniques Physics 18 Active
US7806335B2 Digital image capturing and processing system for automatically recognizing objects in a POS environment Physics 17 Active
US7575170B2 POS-based digital image capturing and processing system using automatic object detection, spectral-mixing based illumination and linear imaging techniques Physics 17 Active
US8042740B2 Method of reading bar code symbols on objects at a point-of-sale station by passing said objects through a complex of stationary coplanar illumination and imaging planes projected into a 3D imaging volume Physics 16 Active
US7614560B2 Method of illuminating objects at a point of sale (POS) station by adaptively controlling the spectral composition of the wide-area illumination beam produced from an illumination subsystem within an automatic digital image capture and processing system Physics 14 Active
US8234507B2 Electronic-ink display device employing a power switching mechanism automatically responsive to predefined states of device configuration Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 12 Active
US7731091B2 Digital image capturing and processing system employing automatic object detection and spectral-mixing based illumination techniques Physics 9 Active
US7878407B2 POS-based digital image capturing and processing system employing automatic object motion detection and spectral-mixing based illumination techniques Physics 9 Active
US7784698B2 Digital image capturing and processing system for automatically recognizing graphical intelligence graphically represented in digital images of objects Physics 8 Active
US8172141B2 Laser beam despeckling devices Physics 5 Active
US7661597B2 Coplanar laser illumination and imaging subsystem employing spectral-mixing and despeckling of laser illumination Physics 5 Active
US7762465B2 Device for optically multiplexing a laser beam Physics 5 Active
US8274390B2 Radio frequency identification antenna switching in a conveyor system Physics 4 Active
US7665665B2 Digital illumination and imaging subsystem employing despeckling mechanism employing high-frequency modulation of laser diode drive current and optical beam multiplexing techniques Physics 2 Active
US7793841B2 Laser illumination beam generation system employing despeckling of the laser beam using high-frequency modulation of the laser diode current and optical multiplexing of the component laser beams Physics 2 Active
US7784695B2 Planar laser illumination module (PLIM) employing high-frequency modulation (HFM) of the laser drive currents and optical multplexing of the output laser beams Physics 2 Active
US7770796B2 Device for producing a laser beam of reduced coherency using high-frequency modulation of the laser diode current and optical multiplexing of the output laser beam Physics 1 Active
US7806336B2 Laser beam generation system employing a laser diode and high-frequency modulation circuitry mounted on a flexible circuit Physics 1 Active

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