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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7229025 | Barcode with enhanced additional stored data A printed barcode including first basic barcode information stored in a first basic mode of printed data storage, and second additional enhanced barcode information stored in a second enhanced mode of printed data storage. The second information is printed, at least... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7225985 | Optical scanner An optical scanner is provided with a carrier, a casing, a driving unit and a transmission unit. The carrier has a connecting unit and an optical system mounted thereon. The casing has a guiding rail formed as integral unit on the interior wall. The guiding rail has... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7228282 | Method and apparatus for directing an existing product code to a remote location A method for interfacing a user location on a network to a destination location on the network is disclosed. A bar code having product information contained therein relating to an associated product is first scanned with a scanner, which bar code has no network rout... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7225979 | Methods and systems for object identification and interaction A method of facilitating an interaction between a user and a product item, the product item having an identity and the method including a number of steps. The first step involves providing the user with an interface surface associated with the product item and conta... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7225989 | Method of performing auto-discrimination of 1D/2D bar code symbologies in a semi-automatic hand-supportable imaging-based bar code symbol reader having narrow-area and wide-area image capture modes of operation Method of performing autodiscrimination of 1D/2D bar code symbologies in a semi-automatic hand-supportable imaging-based bar code symbol reader having narrow-area and wide-area image capture modes of operation. The hand-supportable digital imaging-based bar code sym... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7225992 | RFID device tester and method An RFID device tester includes coupling elements for capacitively coupling a reader to an RFID device to be tested. The reader may power the RFID device by sending an outgoing signal, such as an outgoing AC power signal, which may be rectified and/or reflected by th... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7225519 | Assembling method using marked information An assembling method for assembling an assembly by combining a plurality of mating members with each other, wherein inherent information regarding dimensions of individual members, which is necessary for the combination of members, has been marked on the member surf... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7226087 | System and method for authenticating an article A method of applying an authentication image to an article is presented. The method comprises obtaining a digitized version of the authentication image, encoding the digitized version of the authentication image to produce an encoded latent image, and printing the e... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7222793 | Arrangement and method of imaging one-dimensional and two-dimensional optical codes at a plurality of focal planes A non-complex imaging arrangement is aligned along an imaging axis. A mirror assembly is configured to reflect an image from an optical axis, which intersects the imaging axis, toward the optics assembly. The imaging arrangement includes at least one fixed image sen... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7222789 | Bar code reading device having image processing mode The invention relates to a bar code reading device of the type having an imaging assembly including a two dimensional image sensor and which may be moved between varying positions, orientations and angles relative to a substrate. In one embodiment a bar code reading... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7224540 | Extended depth of field imaging system using chromatic aberration An imaging system (FIG. 3) is disclosed that has a wavelength dependent focal shift caused by longitudinal chromatic aberration in a lens assembly (203) that provides extended depth of field imaging due to focal shift (213,214) and increased res... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7225076 | Map search system Retrieving an on-map position is executed within a targeted search area that is one of search areas. Search information items are stored for retrieving. Each of the search information items is related to one of the search areas. Area-designating information items ar... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7222794 | Optical reader applicable to plurality of uses An optical reader capable of reading a bar code in a mounted state when an article carrying the bar code passes and of reading bar codes set in array on a menu sheet in a hand-held state has been disclosed. The optical reader comprises a light source, a scanner that... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7225229 | Automated pushing of computer user's context data to clients Techniques are described for providing information about a current state that is modeled with multiple state attributes. In some situations the providing includes receiving from a first client an indication of an interest in receiving values for an indicated one of ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7222785 | Commodity information registering apparatus and commodity information registering method There is disclosed a commodity information registering apparatus which registers commodity information while a commodity is moved, comprising a radio tag reading section which reads a radio tag within a first field to acquire commodity identification information sto... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7222791 | Counterfeit detection method A counterfeit detection method includes electronically reading a label on a desired item in a store, transmitting an item identification code encoded in the read label to an authentication unit, receiving an indication from the authentication unit whether or not the... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7222098 | Method and system for online payments using sensor with identifier Methods and systems are disclosed which relate to online payments via interface surfaces printed with information and coded data. The coded data, encoded visibly or invisibly, may be queried by an appropriate sensing device. The sensing device communicates with a co... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7221810 | Method and device for recording of information A device and a method for recording of text by imaging the text on a light-sensitive sensor (8). The device converts the images (14–17, 47–49) into a set of characters (50, 51) each using character recognition, and then assembling the acts o... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7222086 | Systems and methods for providing performance feedback to a cashier at a point-of-sale terminal A system is described for providing performance feedback to a cashier at a POS terminal. The system includes a display for displaying information to a cashier operating the POS terminal. The display displays a performance goal screen at the start of a work session, ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7218231 | Method and apparatus for preparing an item with an RFID tag An automated reading system for associating an RFID tag and product information includes a conveyor belt for moving a product having an RFID tag and a bar code. The system also includes an RFID scanner and a bar code scanner for reading information on the product as... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7215363 | System and method for scanning a surface of a moving object The present invention relates to a system and method for the imaging of surfaces of box like objects conveyed along a path. The objects are conveyed past at least one camera which is positioned at an angle to the object's surface. The at least one camera comprises a... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7213761 | Apparatus and process for two-stage decoding of high-density optical symbols A process comprising computing a histogram of pixel intensity data collected from a digital image of an optically readable symbol including light and dark elements, thresholding the histogram to classify individual pixels as light pixels, dark pixels or gray pixels,... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7213759 | Method and an apparatus to read a barcode The invention relates to a method of reading a machine-readable barcode including a pre-determined number of code elements, in particular bars and spaces, with a respective picture being taken by means of optical imaging of at least two adjacent and/or mutually over... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7215887 | Method and apparatus for infrared data communication An apparatus and method for conveying contextually relevant information to a wireless client (112) is disclosed. More particularly, an emitter (108) transmits a diffuse infrared signal to a client (112) having an IrDA infrared communication inte... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7216224 | Method and system for user registration using processing sensor A method and system for enabling registration of a user to use a computer system. The method includes providing a printed registration form containing information relating to user registration, the form including coded data indicative of an identity of the form and ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7213757 | Emerging security features for identification documents The present invention provides an emerging security or authentication feature for identification documents and other objects. The security feature is constructed using two differently emission-decaying inks. The inks are arranged so as to convey a first pattern when... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7213760 | Coding symbology and a method for printing same The present invention includes forming a coding symbology by disposing a plurality of light-reflecting segments separated by spaces on a substrate. The coding symbology represents fixed information and variable information. ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7215493 | Imaging system with a lens having increased light collection efficiency and a deblurring equalizer In one form, an imaging system comprises an imager that forms an image of an object in a field of view, a rotationally symmetric lens assembly disposed between the imager and the object, and an equalizer. The rotationally symmetric lens assembly provides increased c... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7213762 | Hand-supportable imaging-based bar code symbol reader employing a CMOS-type image sensing array in combination with a band-pass optical filter subsystem, narrow-band illumination subsystem, and automatic light exposure measurement and illumination control subsystem A digital imaging-based bar code symbol reading system comprising: an area image formation and detection subsystem having a CMOS area image sensing array with an image capture mode; a LED-based illumination subsystem for producing narrow-band illumination; and a nar... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7210617 | Secret-ballot systems with voter-verifiable integrity An election system provides, in one example, each voter with multiple physical “layers” that the voter is able to choose between. The voter takes part of the layers as a kind of receipt and the other layers are retained and/or destroyed by the system. The actual... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7212682 | Method and system for enhancing measurement A method and system for enhancing measurement of a bar code or other object includes storing a pixel image containing a bar code; determining bar code orientation relative to the stored pixel image; determining a scan track through the pixel image in a succession of... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7210628 | Dynamic solid state diffractive optics applied for reading a diffractive optics memory The apparatus and method of the present invention employ solid state dynamic diffractive optical elements for reading information from a diffractive optics memory. The diffractive optics memory has stored therein information located at a plurality of points of the m... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7210632 | On-axis control over scanning beam spot size and shape in electro-optical readers A cylindrical lens is axially moved along an optical axis to control a shape and size of a laser beam spot that is scanned across a symbol to be read by an electro-optical reader. ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7208020 | System and method for printing within a network labels to be used for the return of components A system for printing a label to be used to return a component located in an appliance. When a detection unit detects a condition regarding an end of lifetime of the component, a first communication unit sends to a remote server a request to receive data representin... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7209903 | Method and system for facilitation of wireless e-commerce transactions A method for facilitating a wireless transaction includes receiving, by a transaction fulfillment system, a transaction request from a transaction requester and verifying an identity of the transaction requester. After verifying the identity of the transaction reque... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7207490 | Security element A bar code is integrated in the paper in the form of a watermark. The fields (6) which separate the information-conveying bars of the bar code from each other are formed as watermarks. The information-conveying bars can be formed as watermarks, but they do no... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7207491 | System and method for generating a combined bar code image A system and method is provided that includes generating a combined bar code symbol and image that is readable by a bar code scanner device. The system comprises a computer program that provides an image and a bar code symbol and combines the bar code symbol with th... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7207492 | Laser scanning bar code symbol reader employing variable passband filter structures having frequency response characteristics controlled by time-measurement of laser-scanned bar code symbol elements The effects of paper/substrate noise are significantly reduced in multi-focal zone laser scanning systems by processing analog scan data signals with a scan data signal processor having a plurality of pass-band filters and amplifiers that are automatically selected ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7207486 | Combined optical and radio frequency tag reader A system and method is described which utilizes a dual function reader device, which may be a hand-held inventory control device, which first performs an optical read of an optical bar code on a carrier unit, then based on the identification or other information obt... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7207488 | Combined barcode scanner and radio frequency identification reader with field interpretation array A combined barcode scanner and radio frequency identification reader includes a microprocessor control unit, an RFID module, a barcode scanner module, a host interface, and user interface(s). The microprocessor control unit utilizes a Field Interpretation Array to p... | 04/24/2007 |
