Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120104098 | COMMODITY INFORMATION READING APPARATUS AND COMMODITY INFORMATION READING METHOD A commodity information reading apparatus includes: an image capturing section capturing a picked-up image; a first reading section detecting the code symbol from the captured image and reading the commodity information represented by the code symbol; a second reading s... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120067954 | SENSORS, SCANNERS, AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATICALLY TAGGING CONTENT A content tagging and management capability is provided for enabling automatic tagging of content and management of tagged content. A sensor is configured for supporting automatic content tagging of content captured by a content capture device. The sensor may be configu... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120048929 | MULTI-PURPOSE APPENDABLE MARKING METHOD A method of marking and a method of tracking an object having a surface are disclosed. The method of marking includes generating a mark on the surface of the object, generating an attribute on the object, and appending the mark to indicate the generated attribute. The m... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120037696 | Transfer, Link, Bind, Specimen Tube Barcode Information To RFID Specimen Transport Puck In A Continuous Moving Binding Process Method The present invention relates generally to the process method of transferring/linking/binding specimen tube label barcode information (such as unique accession number along with other useful laboratory information such as test code information, testing department, speci... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120024948 | Parsing an identification document in accordance with a jurisdictional format An apparatus that authenticates the contents of identification documents provided by different issuers having machine-readable and/or human readable information is disclosed. The contents of the identification documents are verified without encountering any human error.... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120024955 | ELECTRONIC SLIDE-IN MODULES THAT SLIDE INTO A MODULE CARRIER, MODULE CARRIERS, AS WELL AS ARRANGEMENTS WITH A SLIDE-IN MODULE An electronic slide-in module that slides into a module carrier includes at least one electronic read-out unit that reads out information from an information storage unit in the module carrier without electrical contact with the module carrier.... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120018514 | MEMS barcode device for monitoring medical systems at point of care This invention relates to a novel wireless barcode MEMS canary which can be embedded in electronic systems that can be monitored at any time for their degradation over a period of time until they fail. By establishing the relationship between the healthy state of the ba... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120004931 | System and Method for Form Record Processing A method and system for providing a form record and for processing the same. For example, a medical record form in a clinical or hospital environment is provided based on user input and is processed upon the user's filling in of the form. In some aspects, a user indicat... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110317004 | IV Monitoring by Digital Image Processing We describe an apparatus using an image capturing device to obtain image of the IV container, and uses digital image processing technique to analyze information in the image. We also describe the use of barcode which can read by the apparatus so that relevant informatio... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110315770 | DIMENSIONING AND BARCODE READING SYSTEM A system and method for auto-calibrating a barcode scanning tunnel to determine the orientation of one or more cameras with respect to a range finder and a conveyor belt comprises providing a scanning tunnel having a moveable surface, at least one range finder having an... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110309149 | Hand Held Machine Vision Method and Apparatus A method and system for use with a portable device including a processor, at least some embodiments of the method including the steps of providing an identification tag on at least one item that includes item identifying information, obtaining item identifying informati... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110303749 | XML SYSTEM An XML system is configured to print bar code labels, tags, tickets, cards, or other media, and/or encode RFID devices embedded in media, based upon an extensible markup language (XML) input data stream. The XML system includes a computer system having a memory subsyste... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110290884 | BAR CODE DECODING DEVICE An exemplary bar code decoding unit includes an interface unit. The bar code image is input into the bar code decoding unit via the interface unit, and the bar code decoding unit decodes the bar code image and outputs decoded information via its interface unit.... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110258130 | Computing systems and methods for electronically indicating the acceptability of a product Computing systems and methods for electronically indicating the acceptability of a product. An image capture and communication device may analyze a product label that includes one or more monitors, authentication elements, and identification elements. The image capture ... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110218870 | COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR A ROAMING POINT-OF-SALE SYSTEM A roaming point-of-sale system is disclosed including methods of communicating between the system components. A handheld computing device sends messages to a scanning device, which messages cause the scanning device to scan and return barcode data from a barcode scanner... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110215151 | Method and Apparatus for Correcting Decoding Errors in Machine-Readable Symbols The present invention is a system and method for decoding an image of a bar code. Decoding the barcode includes tokenizing a plurality of pixels in the image of the barcode based upon a plurality of thresholds to form a first set of tokens. Decoding the barcode also inc... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110217804 | THERMALLY ACTIVATED MICROMIRROR AND FABRICATION METHOD A method for fabricating a micromirror in a wafer, including the steps of: depositing and etching layers forming two arms; etching the wafer such that in the back face only a thin portion of the wafer remains in the region of formation of the micromirror and the arms; p... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110192893 | Method and Apparatus for Handling Packages in an Automated Dispensary In a method and apparatus for handling a package in an automated dispensary, a package is positioned in an inspection station of the dispensary. Images are captured of the package and are read to identify data on labels or on the package itself. The data is encoded as s... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110186623 | Container disposal A method of providing an incentive for crushing containers prior to disposal by providing a reward for doing so. When a container is substantially crushed a code on the container that was previously unreadable is caused to be readable by a code reading means. In respons... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110168778 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VERIFYING THE CONNECTION STATUS OF COUPLABLE ELEMENTS A system for verifying the connection status of couplable elements employs a code member having a pattern defining a machine-readable optical code disposed thereupon. The code member is physically divided into a number of separate segments each having a portion of the p... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110139874 | APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING MULTIMEDIA-BASED DATA TRANSMISSION AND ASSOCIATED METHOD An apparatus for performing multimedia-based data transmission includes an image capturing device and a processing circuit. The image capturing device is a peripheral device for a user to capture images. In addition, in a situation where the apparatus is utilized as a t... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110127331 | PHASE LOCKED IR ENCODING FOR PEENED 2D BARCODES A system reveals a 2D barcode in a document. A 2D barcode generator selects the placement and at least one colorant combination of an image and at least one colorant combination for a 2D barcode on a document, where the at least one colorant combination of the image and... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110127332 | EMBEDDED OPTICAL SIGNATURES IN DOCUMENTS A method of embedding an optical signature in a document and document produced therefrom. The optical signature uses an invisible optical pattern or covering that can reflect light in non-visible wavelengths, such as light in infrared, or fluoresces when exposed to a pa... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110130915 | HEALTH MONITORING SYSTEMS AND METHODS WITH VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION A health monitoring system is provided for a vehicle with an identity configured to travel on a surface. The system includes a body positioned on the surface and configured to stimulate a dynamic response from the vehicle as the vehicle travels over the body; a response... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110121066 | DOCUMENT AUTHENTICATION USING HIERARCHICAL BARCODE STAMPS TO DETECT ALTERATIONS OF BARCODE A method of generating a self-authenticating printed document and authenticating the printed document. The back side of the printed document contains 2d barcode which encode extracted features of the document content. The features are hashed into a hash code, converted ... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110111522 | NON-VISIBLE DETECTABLE MARKING FOR MEDICAL DIAGNOSTICS Sample media for the analysis of analytes in a fluid test sample includes a carrier, at least one test field on the surface of the carrier including at least one reagent reactive with the analytes and capable of providing a detectable response. A non-visible bar code fo... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110112898 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING INFORMATION TO A CUSTOMER AT A POINT-OF-SALE VIA A WIRELESS LINK WITHIN A RETAIL STORE A method and method for providing a customer of a retailer with information during checkout may include pairing with a mobile device during checkout of a customer at a POS system. Prior to communicating data to the mobile device, permission may be received from the cust... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110101086 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTACT INFORMATION EXCHANGE A method and device exchanging contact information on an electronic device. Contact information is obtained from a contact by scanning a barcode using an electronic device and decoding the barcode to recover the contact information encoded therein. The contact informati... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110095078 | Printer Side Verification Mechanism A method includes generating a machine readable code using each ink color implemented at a printer, printing the machine readable code on a first side of the medium, analyzing the machine readable code printed on the first side of the medium at a verification unit and d... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110096367 | Print Settings Verification Mechanism A method is disclosed. The method includes retrieving data associated with one or more printer settings to be used to print a document, encoding the printer settings data into machine readable data and printing the machine readable data on the document with print job da... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110087810 | METHOD OF PROGRAMMING THE DEFAULT CABLE INTERFACE SOFTWARE IN AN INDICIA READING DEVICE An indicia reading apparatus includes an interconnect cable and an indicia reading device. The indicia reading device is configured so that, if the indicia reader device is not configured to any interconnect cable and detects an indicia which does not contain one of a p... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110084142 | PROCESSING METHOD OF BARCODE AND APPARATUS THEREOF A processing method of detecting a barcode from an original image includes: an edge processing process, a barcode positioning process and a projection modification process. The edge processing process is for converting an original image into a binarized input image. The... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110087498 | Surgical system providing identification of billing codes An apparatus and method of identifying and selecting a billing code for a surgical procedure using a surgical system.... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110079641 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ACCURATELY LABELING A SPECIMEN AND TREATING A SUBJECT Methods of accurately labeling a specimen accurately giving a medical treatment to a subject or patient are provided. The methods comprise reading a machine-readable subject identification label associated with a subject using a portable label reader; reading a machine-... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110073649 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECOGNIZING BARCODE A method for recognizing a barcode is provided for improving the recognition efficiency of a hand-held data processing device. According to the method, an image capturing module of the hand-held data processing device captures a target frame containing the barcode, so a... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110062237 | INTEGRATED SMART LABEL Implementations of the present disclosure provide an integrated smart label, comprising a plurality of electronic components, each of the electronic components including a profile defining at least a portion of a machine-readable indicia, at least one of the electronic ... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110062226 | SECURITY SYSTEM, MOBILE SECURITY DEVICE, AND METHODS OF OPERATING System, device and methods that provide proximate environmental and security intelligence to a guard making a security tour or round in an installation, as well as that provide for certifying that the guard has visited designated and known checkpoints on or about the ti... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110057037 | PROCESS FOR TRANSFERRING PRODUCT INFORMATION UTILIZING BARCODE READER INTO PERMANENT MEMORY FOR AN IMPLANTED MEDICAL DEVICE A barcode having product information is paired with an implantable medical device or component. The barcode is optically read and at least a portion of the product information is stored into a temporary memory. At least a portion of the product information stored in the... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110054667 | Method of Sorting Mailpieces, The Method Including Optimized Management of Mailpiece Signature Exploration Space In a method of sorting mailpieces in a plurality of sorting passes in a sorting machine having accumulation sorting outlets, use is made of a technique for identifying the mailpieces by image signatures derived from the images of the mailpieces. The mailpieces are trans... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110049243 | HANDLE AND ACTIVATION ASSEMBLY FOR PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE A scanning assembly is disclosed. The scanning assembly comprises a mobile electronic device comprising an optical sensor, the mobile electronic device adapted to perform a scanning operation, and a trigger assembly. The trigger assembly comprises a handle member adapte... | 03/03/2011 |
