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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:
Dec. 30, 1997
Filed:
Feb. 16, 1996
A Kathleen Hennessey, Lubbock, TX (US);
YouLing Lin, Lubbock, TX (US);
Howard V Hastings, III, Lubbock, TX (US);
Jerome R Lovelace, Lubbock, TX (US);
Ning San Chang, Sunnyville, CA (US);
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Electroglas, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX (US);
Abstract
A method involves capturing visual indicia as a digital image, isolating the visual indicia on the digital image, converting the visual indicia to image primitives, identifying and presenting the visual indicia. An apparatus contains a camera for capturing a visual image, a video-to-digital converter, and a computer with a processor, appropriate memory, and software.
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