Metrologic Instruments, Inc.

Hand Held Products, Inc.

Other

Metologic Insturments, Inc.

Metrologic Instruemtns, Inc.

Timothy A Good

Xiaoxun Zhu

C Harry Knowles

Patrick Anthony Giordano

Tao Xian

Ka Man Au

Mark C Schmidt

Thomas A Amundsen

Anatoly Kotlarsky

Michael L Veksland

Constantine J Tsikos

Stephen J Colavito

John A Furlong

Mark Hernandez

Michael Schnee

Robert E Blake

Allan Wirth

Sankar Ghosh

George Kolis

Duane Ellis

Yong Liu

Xi Tao

LeRoy Dickson

Jie Ren

Andrew J Jankevics

Steven Essinger

JiBin Liu

Sean Phillip Kearney

John Gardner

Ming Zhuo

David M Wilz

Sean Philip Kearney

Nicholas Ciarlante

George B Rockstein

Erik Van Horn

Charles A Naylor

Gennady Germaine

Carl Harry Knowles

Ian A Scott

Andrew D Dehennis

William Svedas

John Groot

Russell Joseph Dobbs

Mark Meagher

Richard Hou

Daniel Hu

Jeffery Yorsz

Michael Vincent Miraglia

Shawn Defoney

Edward Skypala

Barry E Schwartz

Steven Y Kim

Jon Van Tassell

David W Wilz, Sr

Gregory Mark Rueblinger

Pirooz Vatan

Dale Fisher

Nicola Ciarlante

Edward C Bremer

David Wilz, Sr

Ynjiun P Wang

Thomas J Carullo

Thomas Merritt Haggerty

Benjamin Hejl

Frank Check

Mark Lucera

Charles Joseph Cunningham, Iv

Joseph A Walczyk

James Rosetti

Robert M Pierce

Larry Coyle

Chandler Dickinson

Chen Feng

William Ross Rapoport

Christopher Allen

Paul Poloniewicz

James Vincent Guiheen

Shane Michael Edmonds

Kevin Saber

Edward Hatton

Chirag Patel

Francis E Lodge

David J Ryder

Garrett K Russell

Mikhail L Veksland

Joseph Ralph

Steve Y Kim

Matt Jefferson

Sung Byun

Jeffrey Dean Harper

Mehul Patel

Eric Youngblood

Shankar Ban

Manjul Bizoara

Justin Samek

Ronald Jackson

Yujiun Paul Wang

Dale M Fischer

Constatine J Tsikos

Embodiments of the disclosure include methods, computer program products, and apparatuses configured for selecting a lens focusing scheme based on a detectability level of an aimer pattern. An imaging engine projects an aimer pattern onto a target object within a field of view of a first imager of an imaging engine. The imaging engine acquires a first image of the target object via the first imager. The imaging engine selects a lens focusing scheme based on a detectability level of the aimer pattern in the first image, in which selection of the lens focusing scheme is between a first lens focusing scheme associated with a location of the aimer pattern and a second lens focusing scheme associated with at least one predefined lens position. The imaging engine determines a focus position for a lens in accordance with the lens focusing scheme.

Apparatuses, methods, and computer program products for comprehensive focusing in imaging environments

A housing of an imaging unit is disclosed. The housing comprises an outer surface and an inner surface, wherein the inner surface of the housing defines a lens channel sized to receive a lens barrel. Further, the inner surface of the housing defines a helical step in the lens channel, wherein the helical step protrudes outwardly into the lens channel, and wherein the helical step is angled at a first predetermined pitch. Further, the inner surface of the lens channel defines a glue pocket, in the lens channel, which extends from the inner surface of the housing to the outer surface of the housing such that a first edge surface, defining a portion of a periphery of the glue pocket, is coplanar with the helical step.

Housing of an image capturing device

Existing currency validation (CVAL) devices, systems, and methods are too slow, costly, intrusive, and/or bulky to be routinely used in common transaction locations (e.g., at checkout, at an automatic teller machine, etc.). Presented herein are devices, systems, and methods to facilitate optical validation of documents, merchandise, or currency at common transaction locations and to do so in an obtrusive and convenient way. More specifically, the present invention embraces a validation device that may be used alone or integrated within a larger system (e.g., point of sale system, kiosk, etc.). The present invention also embraces methods for currency validation using the validation device, as well as methods for improving the quality and consistency of data captured by the validation device for validation.

Devices, systems, and methods for optical validation

A method is provided for constructing a composite image. The method comprises illuminating an object with light of a particular spectral band, capturing a digital image of the illuminated object using a monochromatic image sensor of an imaging device to obtain a monochrome image, repeating the steps of illuminating and capturing to obtain a plurality of monochrome images of the object illuminated by light of a plurality of different spectral bands, processing the plurality of monochrome images to generate image data for one or more output channels, and generating a color composite image from the image data. The color composite image comprises the one or more output channels.

Methods for constructing a color composite image

A system and method of determining if a surface contains print or is a screen of a device is provided. The method is comprised of the steps of: acquiring a spectral wavelength signature of the surface; comparing the spectral wavelength signature of the surface to RGB triple-peak emission spectra; scanning the surface with an image-based scanner in non-illumination mode based upon the spectral wavelength signature of the surface corresponding to the RGB triple-peak emission spectra, and scanning the surface with an image-based scanner in illumination mode based upon the spectral wavelength signature of the surface not corresponding to the RGB triple-peak emission spectra.

System and method of determining if a surface is printed or a device screen

A point of sale system capable of operating in an indicia-reading mode or a verification mode is disclosed. In the indicia-reading mode, the point of sale system configures its illumination, imaging, and processing to read indicia as part of a normal checkout process. If triggered by a user or by an event, the point of sale system may operate in a verification mode. In the verification mode, the point of sale system enables the necessary illumination, imaging, and processing to verify an item. This verification includes illuminating the item in a way that causes a noticeable response from a security mark (or marks) on the item. An image of the response may be captured and processed to authenticate/verify the item. The point of sale system may then respond to the verification and/or may store the image/results as a record of the verification.

Multifunction point of sale system

The present invention embraces an optical indicia reader, e.g., barcode scanner, that captures images of optical indicia under multiple imaging conditions within the span of a single frame. The reader includes an image sensor having selectively-addressable pixels that can be divided into groups having regions of interest (ROIs) within the reader field of view. Each pixel group is shuttered separately to obtain independent partial frame images under separate imaging conditions.

Reader for optical indicia presented under two or more imaging conditions within a single frame time

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Blackwood, NJ, United States of America

Timothy A Good