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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2007
William A. Marty, Seattle, WA (US);
Daniel Dean, Snohomish, WA (US);
H. Sprague Ackley, Seattle, WA (US);
William A. Marty, Seattle, WA (US);
Daniel Dean, Snohomish, WA (US);
H. Sprague Ackley, Seattle, WA (US);
Intermec IP Corp., Everett, WA (US);
Abstract
Systems, devices, and methods for automatic data collection. An automatic data collection system includes an image capture subsystem and a processor subsystem. The automatic data collection system is operable to decode machine-readable symbols in a machine-readable symbol reading mode, and to automatically switch from a machine-readable symbol reading mode to an optical character recognition mode in response to information encoded in a machine-readable symbol. In some embodiments, the automatic data collection system is further operable to perform optical character recognition on human-readable symbols in a human-readable symbol reading mode.