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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2000
Khalid El Akel, Castanet, FR;
Christophe Dumontier, Castanet, FR;
Patrick Reuze, Toulouse, FR;
Serge Thuries, Saint Jean, FR;
Jean-Michel Puech, Toulouse, FR;
Jean-Louis Massieu, Montauban, FR;
Intermec IP Corporation, Woodland Hills, CA (US);
Abstract
The invention concerns an oplo-electronic device for acquisition of images of codes in one and two dimensions, comprising an electronic sensor constituted by a high-resolution photosensitive matrix, an analog/digital converter to convert the data emitted from the electronic sensor, and an image acquisition and processing module, comprising a preprocessing module and two processing modules, forming a pipe-line type architecture. The preprocessing module, acts in synchronous mode on the flow of digital data and implements simple image-processing operations. A number of cabled processing units can form the preprocessing modules. The processing modules, are constituted by programmable modules acting in asynchronous mode on the data emitted from the preceding module and stored in alternative manner in two memory blocks. The programmable modules are programmed to perform processing operations culminating in the obtaining of normalized data that are representative of the information “coded” in the captured code.