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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 25, 2023
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2022
Zebra Technologies Corporation, Lincolnshire, IL (US);
Vladimir Gurevich, Great Neck, NY (US);
Carl D. Wittenberg, Water Mill, NY (US);
Thomas Lackemann, Sayville, NY (US);
Dayou Wang, Mount Sinai, NY (US);
Zebra Technologies Corporation, Lincolnshire, IL (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for locating small indicia in large images are disclosed herein. An example method includes: identifying an aiming pattern zone that includes a detected or presumed location of an aiming light pattern, wherein an offset between the location and a center of image data varies due to a parallax; determining one or more coordinates of the aiming pattern zone; capturing image data representing an image of an environment appearing within a field of view (FOV) of a handheld scanner including the indicia; encoding the one or more coordinates into a tagline of the image; and providing the image with the tagline to an indicia decoder such that the indicia decoder attempts to decode the indicia from the image data starting in a region of the image data selected based upon the one or more coordinates.