Decoding parts with encoded geometry for retrieving passively represented information
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsScott C. Lauffer, Richard W. Guzman
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Abstract
A system, method, and computer-readable medium for decoding an encoded geometry, comprising: scanning an encoded geometry, the scanning comprising scanning a plurality of multi-dimensional symbols of the encoded geometry; identifying each of the plurality of multi-dimensional symbols; decoding each identifier multi-dimensional symbol to provide encoded geometry information; accessing an encoded geometry repository; and, retrieving data associated with the encoded geometry information.
Claims20
A computer-implementable method for decoding an encoded geometry, comprising:
- scanning an encoded geometry, the scanning comprising scanning a plurality of multi-dimensional symbols of the encoded geometry, each of the plurality of multi-dimensional systems comprising a respective glyph, each respective glyph comprising a front two-dimensional variable, a rear two-dimensional variable and a slope variable, the scanning comprises performing the depth scanning operation on the glyph, the scanning comprises detecting the front two-dimensional variable, the rear two-dimensional variable and the slope variable of the glyph;
- and,
- identifying each of the plurality of multi-dimensional symbols, the identifying using the front two-dimensional variable, the rear two-dimensional variable and the slope variable of each respective glyph;
- decoding each identified multi-dimensional symbol to provide encoded geometry information;
- accessing an encoded geometry repository;
- and,
- retrieving data associated with the encoded geometry information.
A system comprising:
- a processor;
- a data bus coupled to the processor;
- and
- a non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium embodying computer program code, the non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium being coupled to the data bus, the computer program code interacting with a plurality of computer operations and comprising instructions executable by the processor and configured for:
- scanning an encoded geometry, the scanning comprising scanning a plurality of multi-dimensional symbols of the encoded geometry, each of the plurality of multi-dimensional systems comprising a respective glyph, each respective glyph comprising a front two-dimensional variable, a rear two-dimensional variable and a slope variable, the scanning comprises performing the depth scanning operation on the glyph, the scanning comprises detecting the front two-dimensional variable, the rear two-dimensional variable and the slope variable of the glyph;
- identifying each of the plurality of multi-dimensional symbols, the identifying using the front two-dimensional variable, the rear two-dimensional variable and the slope variable of each respective glyph;
- decoding each identified multi-dimensional symbol to provide encoded geometry information;
- accessing an encoded geometry repository;
- and,
- retrieving data associated with the encoded geometry information.
A non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium embodying computer program code, the computer program code comprising computer executable instructions configured for:
- scanning an encoded geometry, the scanning comprising scanning a plurality of multi-dimensional symbols of the encoded geometry, each of the plurality of multi-dimensional systems comprising a respective glyph, each respective glyph comprising a front two-dimensional variable, a rear two-dimensional variable and a slope variable, the scanning comprises performing the depth scanning operation on the glyph, the scanning comprises detecting the front two-dimensional variable, the rear two-dimensional variable and the slope variable of the glyph;
- identifying each of the plurality of multi-dimensional symbols, the identifying using the front two-dimensional variable, the rear two-dimensional variable and the slope variable of each respective glyph;
- decoding each identified multi-dimensional symbol to provide encoded geometry information;
- accessing an encoded geometry repository;
- and,
- retrieving data associated with the encoded geometry information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.