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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7387249 | Product verification and authentication system and method The present invention provides for a system and method for product verification for use with products intended to be introduced into circulation and including machine readable product data, and comprising a product data storage means, at least one portable reading d... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7380721 | Low-cost compact bar code sensor A barcode sensor package has an optical emitter circuit and an optical detector circuit which are formed as one or more integrated optical circuits disposed in a housing which has a reading surface and one or more apertures located between the optical emitter and de... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7364074 | Method of authenticating products using analog and digital identifiers A method of identifying or authenticating a product by providing an analog identification indicium including a randomized pattern of identification features on a first part of the product wherein one or more attributes of the randomized pattern of identification fea... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7341192 | Method of generating a complex laser scanning pattern from a bioptical laser scanning system for providing 360° of omnidirectional bar code symbol scanning coverage at a point of sale station A method of generating a complex laser scanning pattern from a bioptical laser scanning system for providing 360° of omnidirectional bar code symbol scanning coverage at a point of sale station that employs a plurality of laser scanning stations about a two indepen... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7314176 | Method of generating a complex laser scanning pattern from a bioptical laser scanning system for providing 360° of omnidirectional bar code symbol scanning coverage at a point of sale station A method of generating a complex laser scanning pattern from a bioptical laser scanning system for providing 360° of omnidirectional bar code symbol scanning coverage at a point of sale station that employs a plurality of laser scanning stations about two independe... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313506 | Advanced applications for 3-D autoscanning LIDAR system A laser scanning system can be used in construction projects to generate a field survey. An architect or engineer can use the field survey to create construction drawings. In addition, relevant points from the construction drawings can be identified at the construct... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7279696 | Optical information code reading apparatus using marker beam In an optical information reading apparatus, a marker beam irradiating unit has a light beam source for emitting a light beam, a diffusing lens for diffusing the light beam emitted from the light beam source, and a collective lens for collecting the light beam diffu... | 10/09/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7188769 | Laser scanner using rotating holographic optical element A scanning device adapted to scan an interface surface provided on a product item, the interface surface having disposed thereon coded data indicative of an identity of the product item, the product item being provided in a sensing region, the scanning device includ... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7180966 | Transition detection, validation and memorization circuit A transition detection, validation and memorization (TDVM) circuit detects the position of a transition in a stream of serially transmitted binary data (bits) that are over sampled and generates a control signal indicating which sampled signal represents the best da... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7152796 | Bar code symbol scanning system having multiple scanning stations for producing a 3-D scanning volume free of substantially and temporally coincident scanning planes A holographic laser scanner of ultra-compact design capable of reading bar and other types of graphical indicia within a large scanning volume using holographic optical elements and visible laser diodes. The holographic optical elements are arranged on the scanning ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7152795 | Bioptical product and produce identification systems employing planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIM) based subsystems A bioptical planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) based object dimensioning, analysis and identification system comprising a pair of PLIIM-based object identification and attribute acquisition subsystems, wherein each PLIIM-based object identification and at... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7131586 | Method of and apparatus for reducing speckle-pattern noise in a planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) based system Methods of and systems for illuminating objects using planar laser illumination beams having substantially-planar spatial distribution characteristics that extend through the field of view (FOV) of image formation and detection modules employed in such systems. Each... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7131590 | Laser module for reading optical codes A compact laser module (1) for reading optical codes including a scanning illumination section having at least one source (8) for generating a laser beam and a scanner (9, 10) for scanning the optical code (C) to be read with a laser spot, and a... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7124948 | Optical reader processing two-dimensional electronic representations A reading apparatus is provided for reading indicia. In one embodiment a reading apparatus can include a menuing program and an input/output device. A data source external to the apparatus having a menuing program and an input/output device can transmit reprogram re... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7118042 | Method and apparatus for rapid image capture in an image system Embodiments of a method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for rapidly capturing images in an automated identification system to effectively extend one dimension of a field of view of an image system are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the image system capt... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7100832 | Bioptical laser scanning system providing 360° of omnidirectional bar code symbol scanning coverage at point of sale station A bioptical laser scanning system employing a plurality of laser scanning stations about a two independently controlled rotating polygonal mirrors. The system has an ultra-compact construction, ideally suited for space-constrained retail scanning environments, and g... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7086597 | Bioptical laser scanning system providing 360 degree of omnidirectional bar code symbol scanning coverage at point of sale station A bioptical laser scanning system employing a plurality of laser scanning stations about a two independently controlled rotating polygonal mirrors. The system has an ultra-compact construction, ideally suited for space-constrained retail scanning environments, and g... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7083102 | Bioptical laser scanner for six-sided 360° Pos-based scanning A bioptical laser scanning system employing a plurality of laser scanning stations about a two independently controlled rotating polygonal mirrors. The system has an ultra-compact construction, ideally suited for space-constrained retail scanning environments, and g... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7077324 | Multi-line barcode scanner with no moving parts The multi-line barcode scanner with no moving parts includes a light source, a light condensing lens and a linear light receiver. When scanning light beams (maybe linear or strip-shaped light beams) emitted from the light source are projecting onto a barcode, the re... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7051922 | Compact bioptical laser scanning system A bioptical holographic laser scanning system employing a plurality of laser scanning stations about a holographic scanning disc having scanning facets with high and low elevation angle characteristics, as well as positive, negative and zero skew angle characteristi... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6978935 | PLANAR LIGHT ILLUMINATION AND IMAGING (PLIIM) BASED SYSTEM HAVING A LINEAR IMAGE DETECTION CHIP MOUNTING ASSEMBLY WITH MEANS FOR PREVENTING MISALIGNMENT BETWEEN THE FIELD OF VIEW (FOV) OF SAID LINEAR IMAGE DETECTION CHIP AND THE CO-PLANAR LASER ILLUMINATION BEAM (PLIB) PRODUCED BY SAID PLIIM BASED SYSTEM, IN RESPONSE TO THERMAL EXPANSION AND/OR CONTRACTION WITHIN SAID PLIIM BASED SYSTEM A planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) based system comprising a linear image formation and detection module having (i) an image sensing chip having a plurality of conductive pins establishing electrical interconnections with conductive elements within a ch... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6971580 | AUTOMATED METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR DIMENSIONING OBJECTS OVER A CONVEYOR BELT STRUCTURE BY APPLYING CONTOURING TRACING, VERTICE DETECTION, CORNER POINT DETECTION, AND CORNER POINT REDUCTION METHODS TO TWO-DIMENSIONAL RANGE DATA MAPS OF THE SPACE ABOVE THE CONVEYOR BELT CAPTURED BY AN AMPLITUDE MODULATED LASER SCANNING BEAM A fully automated package identification and measuring system, in which an omni-directional holographic scanning tunnel is used to read bar codes on packages entering the tunnel, while a package dimensioning subsystem is used to capture information about the package... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6953153 | Compact holographic laser scanner having minimized housing dimensions determined by scanning disc and beam folding mirror parameters Disclosed is a holographic laser scanner of ultra-compact design. The scanner has a scanner housing having width, length and height dimensions, and a holographic scanning disc for scanning and focusing a plurality of laser beams so as to produce a plurality of laser... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6918539 | Method of and device for reading optical data code A two-dimensional code reader repeats a cycle of ordinary code-reading processes such as taking an image of an optical data code, extracting a two-dimensional code from the image and decoding optical data of the two-dimensional code in the image. A specified evaluat... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6892947 | Barcode embedding methods, barcode communication methods, and barcode systems Barcode data communication methods, barcode embedding methods, and barcode systems are described. According to one embodiment, a barcode data communication method includes accessing a composite image comprising a disguised barcode image incapable of being directly r... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6758402 | Bioptical holographic laser scanning system A bioptical holographic laser scanning system employing a plurality of laser scanning stations about a holographic scanning disc having scanning facets with high and low elevation angle characteristics, as well as positive, negative and zero skew angle characteristi... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6729541 | Information reading apparatus and information recording medium An information reading apparatus can detect the coupling state of the input light to a waveguide of a laminated recording medium in a simple manner, so as to enable to focus the input light on a target recording layer to access the information recorded in the target... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6688527 | Bar code scanning system with wireless communication links A code symbol reading device includes a portable housing that contains a source of optical energy. This optical energy is projected into a scan field external to the housing and is incident upon a code symbol situated on an object located within the scan ... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6651886 | Optical code readers with holographic optical elements Holographic optical elements are configured and deployed in optical imagers and scanners to produce optical modification of output laser beams and light received and detected by the system. In some preferred embodiments electrically switchable holographic... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6639698 | Optical scanning unit with rotatable hologram disc An optical scanning unit with a rotatable hologram disc, including a light source, a rotatable hologram disc provided with a plurality of holograms, the holograms being formed concentrically along a radial direction to diffract a beam emitted from the lig... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6616043 | Multi sensor information reader An information reader formed within a unitary enclosure for sensing whether information on a surface to be read is valid includes a plurality of different sensors for sensing the presence of different types of information on the surface being read. Each s... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6616040 | ANALOG SCAN DATA SIGNAL PROCESSOR EMPLOYING A TIME-DOMAIN SUBSTRATE NOISE FILTER FOR NON-LINEARLY PROCESSING ANALOG SCAN DATA SIGNALS AND REDUCING SUBSTRATE NOISE SIGNAL LEVELS THEREIN PRIOR TO FIRST DERIVATIVE SIGNAL GENERATION AND PROCESSING OPERATIONS CARRIED OUT WITHIN SAID ANALOG SCAN DATA SIGNAL PROCESSOR An analog scan data signal processor is disclosed, in which a time-domain non-linear substrate noise filter is provided before a first derivative signal generation stage so as to produce, as output, a substantially fixed zero-reference signal level whenev... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6547144 | Holographic laser scanning system for carrying out light collection operations with improved light collection efficiency A holographic laser scanning system for carrying out laser beam scanning operations with improved light collection efficiency. The holographic laser scanning system comprises: a housing of compact construction; a plurality of laser beam sources; a hologra... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6530522 | Holographic laser scanning system having multiple laser scanning stations for producing a 3-D scanning volume substantially free of spatially and temporally coincident scanning planes A holographic laser scanner of ultra-compact design capable of reading bar and other types of graphical indicia within a large scanning volume using holographic optical elements and visible laser diodes. The holographic optical elements are arranged on th... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6529296 | Hologram scanner A hologram scanner is constructed with a driving source for providing a rotational force, a deflection disk installed at the rotation shaft of the driving source for forming a scanning line, the deflection disk having a plurality of sectors where a hologr... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6523750 | Laser scanning system employing light collection surfaces having optical axes disposed off the bragg angle of the holographic optical elements of the holographic scanning disc thereof A holographic laser scanning system for scanning bar code symbols. The system comprises a holographic scanning disc having a plurality of holographic optical elements disposed thereon for scanning the plurality of laser beams directed at the same incident... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6494377 | METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING ANALOG SCAN DATA SIGNALS DERIVED WHILE SCANNING A BAR CODE SYMBOL USING A LASER BEAM, WHEREIN THE DETECTED BEAM SPOT SPEED OF SAID LASER BEAM IS USED TO DYNAMICALLY SWITCH INTO OPERATION OPTIMAL PASS-BAND FILTERING CIRCUITS 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 automaticall... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6464141 | BAR CODE SYMBOL SCANNING SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY LASER SCANNING BAR CODE SYMBOLS WITHIN A 3-D SCANNING VOLUME AND PRODUCING INFORMATION SPECIFYING THE POSITION OF EACH BAR CODE SYMBOL DETECTED WITHIN SAID 3-D SCANNING VOLUME A bar code symbol scanning system for laser scanning bar code symbols within a 3-D scanning volume and automatically producing bar code symbol position information specifying the position of each bar code symbol detected within said 3-D scanning volume. T... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6439462 | Conveyor-belt mounted bar code symbol reading system employing a steerable bar code symbol scanner to automatically scan bar code symbols detected by a holographic-based bar code position detector An automatic bar code symbol reading system for automatically reading bar code symbols on packages transported along a conveyor belt through a 3-D scanning volume. The system includes a holographic-based bar code symbol detector and a bar code symbol scan... | 08/27/2002 |
