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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2013
Applicant:
Steven Joel Hammer, Lilburn, GA (US);
Inventor:
Steven Joel Hammer, Lilburn, GA (US);
Assignee:
NCR Corporation, Duluth, GA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 7/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 7/10732 (2013.01);
Abstract
An optical code scanner is presented that includes image capture technology to scan optical codes. The image capture technology uses a fixed aperture, a fixed standard optical lens, a fixed high dispersion optical lens and at least one illumination device that generates different colors of light. Together, these elements increase the effective depth of field of the optical code scanner by capturing images of an item presented to the optical code scanner using different colors of light.