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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2011
Applicant:
Hiroshi Nakamura, Nagano, JP;
Inventor:
Hiroshi Nakamura, Nagano, JP;
Assignee:
Nidec Sankyo Corporation, Nagano, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 7/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Provided is a method and an apparatus for reading barcode information; the method and apparatus being able to read barcode information correctly without being influenced by the environmental conditions at the time of reading the barcode information. When a reading method according to a prescribed rule could not read a character, each element width is judged again to be either thin or thick according to structural characteristics of characters to convert again an element width matrix into a bit pattern, and then a character corresponding to the bit pattern as a result of the re-conversion is determined.