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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2018
Zebra Technologies Corporation, Lincolnshire, IL (US);
Dongqing Chen, East Setauket, NY (US);
David S. Koch, East Islip, NY (US);
Lindsay M. Fahmi, Shelton, CT (US);
Zebra Technologies Corporation, Lincolnshire, IL (US);
Abstract
A method of decoding spatially related indicia includes: at an imaging controller, controlling an image sensor to capture an image containing a plurality of indicia; at the imaging controller, detecting image positions of each of the indicia; at the imaging controller, for each of a plurality of indicia pairs: determining whether the image positions of the indicia in the pair have a predefined spatial relationship; and responsive to determining that the indicia in the pair have the predefined spatial relationship, presenting (i) values decoded from the indicia in the pair, and (ii) an indicator that the decoded values are related.