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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:
Sep. 03, 1996
Filed:
Jan. 21, 1994
A Kathleen Hennessey, Lubbock, TX (US);
YouLing Lin, Lubbock, TX (US);
Howard V Hastings, II, Lubbock, TX (US);
Jerome R Lovelace, Lubbock, TX (US);
Ning S Chang, Sunnyville, CA (US);
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for reading visual indicia is disclosed. The method involves capturing the visual indicia as a digital image, isolating the visual indicia on the digital image, converting the visual indicia to image primitives, identifying the identified visual indicia, and presenting the visual indicia. The apparatus contains a camera for capturing a visual image, a video-to-digital converter, and a computing means.
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