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Systems, devices, and methods for reading machine-readable characters and human-readable characters

US7857220B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Intermac IP Corp. · US

Inventors

William A. Marty · Seattle, US
Daniel Dean · Snohomish, US
H. Sprague Ackley · Seattle, US

Key dates

Filing date	May 11, 2009
Grant date	Dec 28, 2010
Priority date	—
Expiry date	May 11, 2029

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06V30/10
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Systems, devices, and methods for automatic data collection. An automatic data collection system includes an image capture subsystem and a processor subsystem. The automatic data collection system is operable to decode machine-readable symbols in a machine-readable symbol reading mode, and to automatically switch from a machine-readable symbol reading mode to an optical character recognition mode in response to information encoded in a machine-readable symbol. In some embodiments, the automatic data collection system is further operable to perform optical character recognition on human-readable symbols in a human-readable symbol reading mode.

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