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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 1990
Filed:
Feb. 27, 1989
Alps Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A bit image converter for composing a decoder for converting the value of counting clocks loaded in response to the width of bars or spaces for composing a bar code into character information of a code reader is composed of a module number calculator for calculating the magnification of the basic module from the number of the modules for composing one code unit (one character), a module number total comparator for comparing the total sum of the number of the calculated modules with a specified number n of the modules, a module number corrector for correcting, if the number of the calculated modules is less than the specified number n (n-1), it to the specified number n, and a bit image output unit. Thus, the code reader is adapted for a multilevel bar code system so composed that a result becomes correct information by correcting, if the number of modules for composing one character is less than a specified number n, it.