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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2008
Serge J. L. Bushman, Overland Park, KS (US);
M. Jeffrey Stone, Overland Park, KS (US);
Sharon T. Haubrich, Kansas City, MO (US);
Ashwin Shashindranath, Overland Park, KS (US);
Jeffrey Scott Barrington, Olathe, KS (US);
Serge J. L. Bushman, Overland Park, KS (US);
M. Jeffrey Stone, Overland Park, KS (US);
Sharon T. Haubrich, Kansas City, MO (US);
Ashwin Shashindranath, Overland Park, KS (US);
Jeffrey Scott Barrington, Olathe, KS (US);
Sprint Communications Company L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
A wireless communication device optically receives and processes a bar code and a background item to the barcode to generate image data. A processing system processes the image data to identify a bar code portion of the image data and to identify a background portion of the image data. The processing system processes the barcode portion of the image data to generate decoded data. The processing system processes the background portion of the image data to generate background data. The processing system processes the decoded data and the background data to determine if the bar code is valid. The wireless communication device generates a bar code valid signal if the bar code is valid and generates a bar code invalid signal if the bar code is invalid.