G06K 7/10821
Further details of bar or optical code scanning devices
Official title: {further details of bar or optical code scanning devices}
G06K7/10821 (Further details of bar or optical code scanning devices) appears on 5,806 US grants and 4,191 published applications in this corpus.
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Subgroups
Granted patents
- G06K 7/10881Constructional details of hand-held scanners2,283
- G06K 7/10861Sensing of data fields affixed to objects or articles1,509
- G06K 7/10851Circuits for pulse shaping, amplifying, eliminating noise signals, checking the function of1,370
- G06K 7/10831Arrangement of optical elements672
- G06K 7/1095The scanner comprising adaptations for scanning a record carrier that is displayed376
- G06K 7/1098The scanning arrangement having a modular construction362
- G06K 7/1096The scanner having more than one scanning window315
- G06K 7/10841Particularities of the light-sensitive elements206
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- G06K 7/1093Sensing, after transfer of the image of the data-field to an intermediate204
- G06K 7/1092Sensing by means of tv-scanning186
- G06K 7/1097Optical sensing of electronic memory record carriers, such as interrogation of rfids125
- G06K 7/1094The record carrier being at least partially of the hologram type15
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