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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 1995
Filed:
Aug. 31, 1993
Yutaka Adachi, Sagamihara, JP;
Olympus Optical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The image of a bar code on a bar code label is picked up by a linear sensor while scanning in the X and Y directions is performed by a stage. An analog video signal from this linear sensor is converted into digital data by an analog processor. The resulting digital video data is supplied to a counter unit, and the counter unit counts the lengths of bars and spaces constituting the bar code. These counted lengths of the bars and the spaces are stored in a memory. The content of the memory is decoded by a data processor constituted by a CPU or the like. The decoded result is supplied to, e.g., a host computer, thereby presenting the content of the information written on the bar code to an operator.