Tag Identification System
AssigneeBob Barker Company, Inc.
InventorsGerrad Stephen Allison, Melody Ballard
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Abstract
The present application is directed to an identification system that is configured to be attached to an object. The identification system includes one or more tags that can be manipulated to uniquely identify the object. The manipulation can include removing one or more of the tags and/or marking one or more of the tags.
Claims20
A method of visually identifying each individual object in a set of objects in which each of the objects has the same visual appearance, the method comprising:
- attaching a set of tags to each of the objects at a common location on the objects with the set of tags being the same for each of the objects;
- for each of the objects:
- selecting a visually distinct combination of one or more of the tags with the visually distinct combination being different than the other objects;
- and
- removing the non-selected ones of the tags from the object with just the selected ones of the tags remaining attached to the object such that the object can be visually identified from the other objects in the set of objects.
A method of visually identifying each individual object in a set of objects, the method comprising:
- attaching a common set of tags to each of the objects at a common location on each of the objects;
- for each of the objects:
- creating a visually distinct identifier with one or more of the tags;
- and
- removing one or more of the tags from the object that do not form a part of the visually distinct identifier.
An identification system for identifying a group of objects that have a common visual appearance, the identification system comprising:
- a plurality of tags attached to the object in an overlapping configuration with each of the tags having a common shape and size and comprising a different visual appearance.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.