System and method to automatically discriminate between different data types
AssigneeHand Held Products, Inc.
InventorYnjiun P. Wang
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Abstract
There is described a system and method for automatically discriminating between different types of data with an image reader. In brief overview of one embodiment, the automatic discrimination feature of the present image reader allows a human operator to aim a hand held image reader at a target that can contain a dataform and actuate the image reader. An autodiscrimination module in the image reader in one embodiment analyzes image data representative of the target and determines a type of data represented in the image data.
Claims22
An image reader that automatically discriminates between data types, the image reader comprising:
- an image collection module configured to collect image data representative of a target;
- an autodiscrimination module in communication with the image collection module, the autodiscrimination module configured to automatically discriminate between a facial image biometric and a dataform;
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- an I/O module in communication with at least the autodiscrimination module.
An image reader that automatically identifies different data types, the image reader comprising:
- an image collection module configured to collect image data representative of a target;
- wherein the image reader is configured for identifying a bar code dataform in a first collected image and for examining image data representing a signature to identify a signature in the first collected image, the first collected image collected using the image collection module, the image reader further configured to attempt to decode the barcode dataform by processing image data of the first collected image and to output decoded barcode dataform data determined from the attempt to decode.
A image reader that automatically identifies different data types, the image reader comprising:
- an image collection module configured to collect image data representative of a target;
- wherein the image reader segments a first collected image into a plurality of regions, wherein the image reader for each region of the plurality of regions is configured to classify content of the region as a dataform if the region includes a dataform, and as a signature if the region includes a signature, the first collected image collected using the image collection module.
A image reader comprising:
- an image collection module configured to collect image data representative of a target;
- a dataform decode module;
- wherein the image reader subjects image data of a first collected image to a decode attempt using the dataform decode module, the first collected image collected using the image collection module, wherein the image reader is configured so that responsive to decoding of the dataform by subjecting of the image data of a first collected image to a decode attempt the dataform decode module is disabled in a manner that for a subsequent image collected using the image collection module, the dataform decode module is not active to process image data for attempting to decode a dataform.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.