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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 1979
Filed:
Mar. 07, 1977
Applicant:
Inventor:
Marion W Neff, Irving, TX (US);
Assignee:
Recognition Equipment Incorporated, Irving, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
3401 / ; 3401 / ;
Abstract
A lamp control for a hand-held OCR wand having a photosensor array positioned to sense light reflected into the wand through a reading aperture therein. A lamp is carried by the wand for illuminating the field facing the reading aperture. Recognition means connected to the array produces a control state when no light is reflected onto the array and a timer responsive to the control state is operable after a predetermined time delay to reduce the excitation of the lamp. Timer reset means responsive to reset of said control state restores normal lamp excitation.