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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 1993
Filed:
Nov. 05, 1991
Charles K Wike, Jr, Sugar Hill, GA (US);
Stephen J Ames, Lawrenceville, GA (US);
William M Belknap, Lawrenceville, GA (US);
Rex A Aleshire, Buford, GA (US);
Deborah A Detwiler, Lawrenceville, GA (US);
NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH (US);
Abstract
An automatic sensing and programming circuit for optical scanners which produces a diffuse volume of light substantially encompassing the scan volume of the scanner. A method for programming one optical scanner from another uses the circuit to emit a plurality of pulse trains which in combination represent a predetermined function or set of functions, each pulse train representing predetermined hexadecimal digit, and each pulse train including a predetermined number of binary pulses. A method of programming an optical scanner employs a plurality of tags which in combination represent a predetermined function or set of functions, each tag representing a predetermined hexadecimal digit encoded as bar code labels.