US 2019/0197271 A1Published application

Barcode-reading system

AssigneeThe Code Corporation

InventorsGeorge Powell, Ryan Hoobler, Ming Lei, Phil Utykanski

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Abstract

Described herein is a barcode-reading system for a mobile device that may include an optic system with a reflective surface for folding a field of view of a camera of the mobile device towards a target area positioned at a top side of the mobile device, a reflective surface for folding a field of illumination of a white light source of the mobile device towards the target area, and a target-generating mechanism for narrowing the field of illumination of the white light source along a first direction such that the field of illumination of the white light source has a divergence angle in the first direction that is approximately the same as a divergence angle of the field of view of the camera in the first direction.

Claims10

Dependent claims

A barcode reading system for a mobile device, the mobile device comprising a camera having a field of view to a back side of the mobile device, a white light source for projecting a field of illumination towards the back side of the mobile device, a memory and a processor, and the barcode reading system comprising:

a barcode reading enhancement accessory secured to the mobile device, the barcode reading enhancement accessory comprising an optic system with a reflective surface for folding the field of view of the camera towards a target area positioned at a top side of the mobile device and a reflective surface for folding the field of illumination of the white light source towards the target area;
and
a barcode reading application stored in the memory and executable by the processor, the barcode reading application including:
an image capture function for controlling the white light source and the camera to capture an image of a barcode in the target area;
a decoder function for receiving the image of the barcode and generating decoded data representing data encoded in the barcode;
and
a relay function for sending the decoded data to a remote server via a wireless connection established between the mobile device and a network.

4 more elements

A method of reading a barcode utilizing a mobile device, the mobile device comprising a camera having a field of view to a back side of the mobile device, a white light source for projecting a field of illumination towards the back side of the mobile device, a memory and a processor, and the method comprising:

directing an operating system of the mobile device to obtain a barcode reading application from a remote application server and to install the barcode reading application in the memory for execution by the processor;
securing a barcode reading enhancement accessory to the mobile device, the barcode reading enhancement accessory comprising an optic system with a reflective surface for folding the field of view of the camera towards a target area positioned at a top side of the mobile device and a reflective surface for folding the field of illumination of the white light source towards the target area;
and
executing the barcode reading application by the processor, execution of the barcode reading application comprising:
execution of an image capture function to control the white light source and the camera to capture an image of a barcode in the target area;
execution of a decoder function to generate decoded data representing data encoded in the barcode;
and
execution of a relay function to send the decoded data to a server via a wireless connection established between the mobile device and a network.

5 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/292,088Filed 4 Mar 2019
Priority: 4 Oct 2012
Published: 27 Jun 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

G06K 7/10831
Further details of bar or optical code scanning devices: arrangement of optical elements, e.g. lenses, mirrors, prisms
G06K 7/0004
Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers, e.g. for reading patterns: hybrid readers
G06K 7/089
By means detecting the change of an electrostatic or magnetic field, e.g. by detecting change of capacitance between electrodes: hand-held scanners
G06K 7/10732
Photodetector array or CCD scanning: light sources

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