Method and apparatus for capturing and decoding an image of a remotely located bar code
AssigneeTripletail Ventures, Inc.
InventorsBruce D. Melick, David M. Snyder, Leslie D. Baych, Paul R. Staman
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Abstract
A method for remotely decoding a bar code includes capturing an image of a bar code using a camera, transmitting the image of the bar code across a network, receiving the image of the bar code at a remote location on the network, reproducing the image of the bar code at the remote location to provide a reproduced image of the bar code, and scanning and decoding the reproduced image of the bar code.
Claims19
A method for remotely decoding a machine readable code for security purposes, comprising:
- sending information displayed as a secure machine readable code;
- capturing an image of the machine readable code using a camera;
- transmitting the image of the machine readable code across a network;
- receiving the image of the machine readable code at a remote location on the network;
- reproducing the image of the machine readable code on a video display at the remote location to provide a reproduced image of the machine readable code;
- scanning and decoding the reproduced image of the machine readable code from the video display using a machine readable code reader to provide information;
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- verifying the information extracted from the reproduced image of the machine readable code matches the security information.
The method of claim 14 wherein the source of the image of a machine readable code is selected from the set consisting of an identification card, a badge, a ticket, an electronic document, a electronic document with fill-in-fields, an e-mail, a form, a webpage, a spreadsheet, a student record, a student report card, an invoice, a purchase order, a repair order, a warranty, a prescription, a patient record, and a prisoner's record.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.