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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 23, 2014
Applicants:
James A. Negro, Arlington, MA (US);
Carl W. Gerst, Iii, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Inventors:
James A. Negro, Arlington, MA (US);
Carl W. Gerst, III, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Assignee:
COGNEX CORPORATION, Natick, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/22 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01); G06K 9/74 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/6254 (2013.01); G06K 9/228 (2013.01); G06K 9/6217 (2013.01); G06K 9/74 (2013.01); H04N 5/2256 (2013.01); H04N 5/23293 (2013.01); H04N 5/23296 (2013.01); H04N 17/002 (2013.01); G06K 2209/01 (2013.01);
Abstract
A handheld scanner incorporates vision software to allow the handheld scanner to be trained for OCR. The handheld scanner can include a user interface to allow a user to associate an image of a mark with electronic data for the mark. The user interface, along with a range finder, can also be used to influence variables that affect the quality of an image scan, thereby improving the quality of results for the image scan and/or decode process.