Digital image capturing and processing system for automatically recognizing graphical intelligence graphically represented in digital images of objects

US7784698B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• METROLOGIC INSTRUMENTS, INC. · US

Inventors

• C. Harry Knowles · Moorestown, US
• Xiaoxun Zhu · Marlton, US
• Timothy Good · Blackwood, US
• Tao Xian · Readington, US
• Anatoly Kotlarsky · Holland, US
• Michael Veksland · Marlton, US
• Mark Hernandez · Bridgeton, US
• John Gardner · Mullica Hill, US
• Steven Essinger · Philadelphia, US
• Patrick Giordano · Glassboro, US
• Sean Philip Kearney · Marlton, US
• Mark Schmidt · Williamstown, US
• John A. Furlong · Woodbury, US
• Nicholas Ciarlante · Teaneck, US
• Yong Liu · Sunnyvale, US
• Jie Ren · Lo Wu, CN
• Xi Tao · Suzhou, CN
• JiBin Liu · Beijing, CN
• Ming Zhuo · Suzhou, CN
• Duane Ellis · Medford, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 30, 2007
• Grant date: Aug 31, 2010
• Expiry date: Apr 13, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06K2207/1012
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A digital image capturing and processing system including a system housing having an imaging window; illumination and imaging stations for generating and projecting illumination and imaging planes or zones through the imaging window, and into a 3D imaging volume definable relative to the imaging window, for digital imaging an object passing through the 3D imaging volume, and generating digital linear images of the object as the object intersects the illumination and imaging planes or zones during system operation. A digital image processor processes the digital images and automatically recognizes graphical intelligence (e.g. bar code symbols, alphanumeric characters etc) graphically represented in the digital images.