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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2013
Applicant:
Sick Ag, Waldkirch, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sick AG, Waldkirch, DE;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 5/00 (2006.01); G06T 5/00 (2006.01); G06K 7/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 5/00 (2013.01); G06T 5/006 (2013.01); G06T 5/008 (2013.01); G06K 7/1478 (2013.01); G06K 7/146 (2013.01);
Abstract
A code reader () having an image sensor () for the generation of images of a detection zone () resolved into pixels is provided having a decoding unit () in order to identify code regions () in the images and to readout their coded information, as well as having a verification unit () for evaluating the code quality in accordance with predefined criteria. In this connection the verification () is configured to initially generate a normalized verification image of the code from the code regions () by means of image processing for the verification.