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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2012
Applicants:
Michael Peter Kuyper-hammond, Kaltbrunn, CH;
Michael Charles Osborne, Au, CH;
Tamas Visegrady, Zurich, CH;
Inventors:
Michael Peter Kuyper-Hammond, Kaltbrunn, CH;
Michael Charles Osborne, Au, CH;
Tamas Visegrady, Zurich, CH;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 7/10 (2006.01); G06K 19/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An apparatus for reading a multi-modal barcode is provided. The apparatus includes a camera, an edge detector, wherein the edge detector comprises a filter to read a secondary image, a quantization component, and a barcode processor. Also provided is a multi-modal barcode including a single-dimensional grayscale structure, wherein the structure is stretched in a perpendicular direction to its single-directional axis.