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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2019
Applicant:
Digimarc Corporation, Beaverton, OR (US);
Inventor:
Scott M. Long, Portland, OR (US);
Assignee:
Digimarc Corporation, Beaverton, OR (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 7/14 (2006.01); G06Q 20/20 (2012.01); G07G 1/00 (2006.01); G07G 3/00 (2006.01); G07G 1/01 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 7/1417 (2013.01); G06K 7/1413 (2013.01); G06Q 20/208 (2013.01); G07G 1/0009 (2013.01); G07G 1/0045 (2013.01); G07G 1/01 (2013.01); G07G 3/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
Debug information is output from a point-of-scale scanner by disguising it as one or more product identifiers (e.g., Global Trade Item Numbers, or GTINs). Generation of such 'faux GTINs' to convey the debug information can be activated by presenting a special machine readable code to the scanner. Repetitive patterns in the debug information are desirably varied to avoid triggering duplicate detection logic in the scanner, which might otherwise suppress outputting of such repetitive information.