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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 08, 2014
Applicant:
Randy Mcgill, St. Augustine, FL (US);
Inventor:
Randy McGill, St. Augustine, FL (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 7/10 (2006.01); G06K 7/14 (2006.01); G06K 5/00 (2006.01); G06K 19/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 7/1404 (2013.01); G06K 5/00 (2013.01); G06K 19/06112 (2013.01);
Abstract
A coupon management system includes a synthetic barcode phone. The synthetic barcode phone comprises light management components and a controller. The light management components include both an optical receiver (e.g., camera or light sensor) and an optical emitter (e.g., display elements). A processor decodes drive data from audio files corresponding to barcodes. The decoded data is used to drive the controller which causes the emitter to emit light pulses that emulate light reflected from a scanned barcode to communicate the coupon barcode optically.