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Apparatus for reading mesh pattern image data having bars along upper and lower sides of mesh pattern and a boundary line between horizontally adjacent dark and light area of mesh pattern

US5591957A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMay 26, 1995
Grant dateJan 7, 1997
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Expiry dateMay 26, 2015

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG10H2220/445
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A data reading apparatus reads data of dots from a recording sheet on which data is recorded in the form of a mesh pattern, and decodes the read data into binary data. The data reading apparatus has an image sensor to read black/white levels of dots of the mesh pattern using the image sensor and to binarize the read levels by a hardware component or CPU processing according to software. An image can have a high recording density by minimizing a dot size.

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