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7594613 |
2-dimensional code formation method and formation device
The 2-dimensional code formation method of this invention comprises: a process of specifying the code size for 2-dimensional code; a process of specifying storage information to be written in the...
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7573616 |
Enhanced data capture from imaged documents
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for locating an area of interest within a digital image of a form captured by an imaging scanner. Specific examples include methods and apparatus for optical...
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7464875 |
Image acquiring apparatus capable of processing image quickly and method of acquiring image thereof
An image acquiring apparatus capable of processing an image quickly and a method of acquiring the image. The image acquiring apparatus includes an image acquiring unit and a processing unit. The...
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7383965 |
Blood-collection tube preparation device
In the blood-sampling-tube preparation device according to the present invention, the each blood-sampling-tube containing section is provided with a number of compartments along a periphery...
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7287706 |
Two-dimensional tag with locator and orientation components
A two-dimensional (2D) tag is provided for reading with an optical reader. The tag includes a locator component for locating the tag. An orientation component is provided so that the reader can...
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7278585 |
Redundant two-dimensional code and a decoding method
In order to reduce a two-dimensional data structure to a minimum number of bits, a two-dimensional surface pattern is provided, which can be used in particular for identifying an absolute position...
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7175096 |
Data glyph format
A data glyph and method, system, and computer program product for creating and reading the data glyph is provided. In one embodiment the data glyph is created by combining individual glyph...
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7124945 |
Reading unit and marking card for optical mark reader
The present invention relates to a reading unit and a marking card for optical mark reader. The reading unit comprises a plurality of optical sensing devices (R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , R 4 . . . )...
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7073724 |
Tagged surface printer
A printer for generating a surface printed with tags, the tags embedded with data, the printer comprising: an encoder having two or more rendering engines, the encoder rendering a pattern of tags,...
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7070115 |
Ballot form and method for making and using same
The present invention is an improved scannable answer sheet or document suitable for a balloting process and a method for producing such document using a printing process, particularly a document...
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6991164 |
Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding bar codes with primary and secondary information and method of using such bar codes
A bar code ( 10 ) has primary information ( 46, 48, 50, 51 ) encoded in one direction (e.g., horizontally) and secondary information ( 13, 21, 36 ) encoded in another direction (e.g., vertically)...
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RE38758 |
Self-clocking glyph shape codes
This invention provides self-clocking glyph shape codes for encoding digital data in the shapes of glyphs that are suitable for printing on hardcopy recording media. Advantageously, the glyphs are...
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6874686 |
Optical readout device
An optical readout device for reading out data from an electroluminescent data storage medium, comprising: a driving circuit ( 4 ) for driving the radiation-emitting material with a time-varying...
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6830198 |
Generating tags using tag format structure
A generic data package template is described that allows data to be encoded and printed in any arbitrary shape using an arbitrary encoding scheme. The template comprises an arbitrary shaped...
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6817539 |
Generating landscape and portrait oriented tags
A generic data package template is described that allows data to be encoded and printed in any arbitrary shape using an arbitrary encoding scheme. The template comprises an arbitrary shaped...
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6736319 |
Optical mark reader
An optical mark reader includes a housing formed by a base and an upper housing assembly. A scanner is associated with the upper housing assembly for performing scanning operations on cards that...
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6708894 |
Method for invisible embedded data using yellow glyphs
The present invention provides a system and method for encoding digital data in a hardcopy rendering of an invisible image of circularly asymmetric dot patterns. The dot patterns are slash-like...
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6672507 |
Method and apparatus for printing a billing statement to provide supplementary product sales
A central controller such as one operating for a credit card account issuer receives one or more billing items which are to be printed on an account holder's billing statement. The central...
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6666257 |
Bar code stencil and method of use
A bar code identification stencil for uniquely identifying a plurality of articles. The stencil includes a carrier strip which carries an identification code. The identification code is formed of a...
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6641053 |
Foreground/background document processing with dataglyphs
An image processing apparatus for encoding and decoding a document containing machine-readable code overlaid by human-readable content such that the code and the human-readable content are both...
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6641051 |
System for embedded digital data that allows embedding of data around known obstructions
A system for printing glyph frames around known obstructions. All frames in an area are determined to be obstructed or unobstructed, based on their location with respect to other printed areas. The...
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6631843 |
Composite code symbology
The present invention relates to a new composite code symbology having two differently encoded information portions positioned adjacent to each other. The linking between the two portions is...
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6560741 |
Two-dimensional printed code for storing biometric information and integrated off-line apparatus for reading same
A two-dimensional, high-density, damage-tolerant printed code suitable for encoding multiple biometrics and text for positive off-line identity verification comprises a horizontal header section; a...
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6530526 |
Device for transmitting information by means of acoustic signals
In a device for generating acoustic signals, a mechanical profile which contains information in a coded form is arranged on the surface of a plastic card, can be lead over an edge for generating...
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6457651 |
Dual mode, dual information, document bar coding and reading system
A dual level encryption method, and document, for providing and obtaining a substantially increased amount of optically readable information from an otherwise conventional and highly visible...
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6398117 |
Method and system for combining bar codes of different encoding dimensions
A method for printing barcode, comprising the steps of obtaining a 1D barcode for an area of a medium; obtaining a 2D bar code; combining the 1D and 2D bar codes in the area to overlap at least in...
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6390368 |
Coding systems
Machine readable coded markings carried on articles to identify various properties of the articles are disclosed. The coded markings are formed integrally of the article in the form of a sequence...
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6382504 |
Printing apparatus and method
The invention provides for printing apparatus comprising printing means and a host processor ( 28 ) for delivering print data and command data via a common interface ( 30 ) to the said printing...
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6371373 |
Method for reading a two-dimensional barcode
Two embodiments of a method of decoding information stored in a two-dimensional barcode printed on a printed medium are introduced. Both embodiments provide an improved method of analyzing...
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6343741 |
Method and apparatus for detecting transitions in an input signal
A method and apparatus for determining the transitions between binary levels of an input signal such as a scanned bar code label by detecting zero crossings of an approximated second derivative of...
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6338436 |
Variable ticket and ticket printer
A valuable ticket—on which ticketing data is magnetically recorded and which is printed for issuance-includes a base a heat-sensitive layer provided on one side of the base, a protective layer...
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6327395 |
Glyph address carpet methods and apparatus for providing location information in a multidimensional address space
A user interface is implemented using visual indicia and a background for the visual indicia that encodes address information. The background appears visually as a stipple pattern, but is...
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6296192 |
Machine-readable record with a two-dimensional lattice of synchronization code interleaved with data code
A machine-readable record is provided for storing encoded information comprising a record medium, data glyphs written on the media in a two-dimensional array and a sync code interleaved with the...
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6279830 |
Two-dimensional code, reading and producing method and recording medium storing related software
A two-dimensional code includes a plurality of cells arranged in a predetermined two-dimensional pattern. The code comprises an information recording region constituted by a plurality of blocks....
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6273340 |
Coding method, coding equipment and resulting coded product
A process for data coding on any type of support (object, document, plant, animal, any material or materialized surface) calling for affixing on a surface a marking constituted by a plurality of...
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6206287 |
Film optical image bar code reader
A bar code reader particularly useful in a photographic film scanner of the type employing a light source and CCD array for sensing the bar code elements. Lateral location of the bar code pattern...
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6186405 |
Dot code and code reading apparatus
A dot code is provided for recording digital data, such as multi-media information, as an optically readable code pattern, using various modulation methods, and a code reading apparatus is provided...
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6116510 |
Code reading and recording apparatus
A code pattern image printed/recorded on a recording medium and adapted to be picked up and read is electronically taken up and read and then processed by a decoder to restore the original data,...
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6115508 |
Clock free two-dimensional barcode and method for printing and reading the same
Inventive two-dimensional barcodes, each having encoded digital information in a bitmap representing preferably randomized encoded data bits, are printed onto a printed medium. The bitmap may...
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6089455 |
Code recognition method and system for rotating body
A code printing and recognition system for printing, reading, and decoding a code on an article while the article is rotated and conveyed along a predetermined path. The system includes a code...
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6039258 |
Hand-held portable data collection terminal system
A hand-held portable data collection system integrates ideal design features to improve and optimize the data collection process. The operator interface of the hand-held portable data collection...
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6000614 |
Two-dimensional code reading apparatus
A two-dimensional code reading apparatus uses the image of a reference pattern of a known shape in the two-dimensional code to compute areas, shapes and positions of cells in the image of the...
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6000613 |
Self-clocking glyph code having composite glyphs for distributively encoding multi-bit digital values
A self-clocking glyph code is provided for encoding n-bit long digital values (where n>1) in a logically ordered sequence of composite glyphs that are written, printed, or otherwise recorded on...
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5945655 |
Apparatus and method for counting bingo cards
The issue of bingo paper as controlled by producing packages of multiple sheets each including multiple bingo cards, with each card provided with a uniformly located machine readable index number,...
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5937110 |
Parallel propagating embedded binary sequences for characterizing objects in N-dimensional address space
Machine readable fragments of a code pattern that is parameterized in N-dimensional space, where N≥2, are affixed to two or three dimensional physical objects, such that the objects are uniquely...
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5936228 |
Dot-code recording method and dot-code recording and reproducing apparatus
A dot-code recording method includes a step of generating a plurality of one-block dot patterns, each of which comprises a plurality of dots. The plurality of one-block dot patterns are then...
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5936225 |
Method and apparatus for tabulating data from a plurality of response forms
A system for processing a plurality of response forms containing subsets of questions from an entire set of question is disclosed. This system includes an optical scanner for creating an optical...
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5862255 |
Broad bandwidth image domain communication channel with symbol interference suppression
The glyphs of self-clocking glyph codes are written on regular hexagonal or pseudo-hexagonal lattice-like patterns of centers to reduce the risk of interglyph interference during the read process...
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5850080 |
Verification of barcodes
Verification patterns are associated with barcodes to provide rapids visual confirmation that a barcode is printed within acceptable tolerances. A master of a barcode to be produced includes at...
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5825947 |
Optical reproducing system for multimedia information recorded with code data having function for correcting image reading distortion
An image pickup unit optically reads, from an information recording medium having a portion that records multimedia information including at least one of audio information, video information, and...
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