Inventor

KNOWLES C HARRY

US228 patents

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KNOWLES C HARRY

METROLOGIC INSTR INC

Compact bar code symbol reading system employing a complex of coplanar illumination and imaging stations for omni-directional imaging of objects within a 3D imaging volume

Hand-suportable imaging-based bar code symbol reader employing an automatic light exposure measurement and illumination control subsystem for measuring illumination exposure on CMOS image sensing array and controlling LED illumination array driver circuitry

Hand-supportable digital imaging-based bar code symbol reader supporting narrow-area and wide-area modes of illumination and image capture

Method of and apparatus for processing captured digital images of objects within a semi-automatic hand-supportable imaging-based bar code symbol reader so as to read 1d and/or 2d bar code symbols graphically represented therein

Method of and system for producing high-resolution 3-D images of 3-D object surfaces having arbitrary surface geometry

Planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) engine

Method of and apparatus for automatically cropping captured linear images of a moving object prior to image processing using region of interest (roi) coordinate specifications captured by an object profiling subsystem

Automatic vehicle identification and classification (AVIC) system employing a tunnel-arrangement of PLIIM-based subsystems

Method of speckle-noise pattern reduction and apparatus therefor based on reducing the temporal-coherence of the planar laser illumination beam before it illuminates the target object by applying temporal phase modulation techniques during the transmission of the plib towards the target

Planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) system employing wavefront control methods for reducing the power of speckle-pattern noise digital images acquired by said system

Hand-held WWW access device with GUI-based www browser program integrated with bar code symbol reader for automatically accessing and displaying HTML-encoded documents by reading bar code symbols

System for storing, accessing and displaying html encoded

System and method for composing menus of URL-encoded bar code symbols while using internet browser program

Automatic bar code reading system having selectable long range and short range modes of operation

Hand-supportable imaging based bar code symbol reader employing automatic light exposure measurement and illumination control subsystem integrated therein

Led-based planar light illumination beam generation module employing a focal lens for reducing the image size of the light emmiting surface of the led prior to beam collimation and planarization

System and method for composing sets of URL-encoded bar code symbols while using an internet browser program

Automated system for identifying and dimensioning packages transported through a laser scanning tunnel using laser scanning beam indexing techniques

Automated holographic-based tunnel-type laser scanning system for omni-directional scanning of bar code symbols on package surfaces facing any direction or orientation within a three-dimensional scanning volume disposed above a conveyor belt

Method of and apparatus for identifying consumer products in a retail environment when bar code symbols on the products are not readable or have been removed from packaging

Method for intelligently controlling the illumination and imagine of objects as they are moved through the 3D imaging volume of a digital image capturing and processing system

Method of reading code symbols using a hand-supportable digital image capturing and processing device employing a micro-computing platform supporting an event-driven multi-tier modular software architecture

Hand-supportable imaging-based auto-discriminating 1D/2D bar code symbol reader employing a multi-mode image processing bar code symbol reading subsystem having a plurality of modes of operation which are dynamically reconfigurable in response to real-time image analysis

Hand-supportable imaging-based bar code symbol reader employing a CMOS-type image sensor using global exposure techniques

Digital imaging-based bar code symbol reading system employing a multi-mode illumination subsystem with far-field and near field led-based illumination arrays

Hand-supportable digital imaging-based bar code symbol reading system employing a method of intelligently illuminating an object so as to generate a digital image thereof which is substantially free of noise caused by specular-type reflection

Hand-supportable imaging-based bar code symbol reader having a multi-mode bar code symbol image processor dynamically reconfigurable in response to real-time image processing operations carried out on captured images

Hand-supported imaging-based bar code symbol reader employing a multi-mode image-processing based bar code reading subsystem with modular image-processing architecture

Hand-supportable digital imaging-based bar codes symbol reader employing multi-mode subsystems

Wireless bar code symbol driven portable data terminal (PDT) system adapted for single handed operation

Method of and system for automatically producing digital images of a moving object, with pixels having a substantially uniform white level independent of the velocity of said moving object

Object identification and attribute information acquisition and linking computer system

Method of speckle-noise pattern reduction and apparatus therefor based on reducing the temporal-coherence of the planar laser illumination beam before it illuminates the target object by applying temporal frequency modulation techniques during the transmission of the plib towards the target

Tunnel-type package identification system having a remote image keying station with an ethernet-over-fiber-optic data communication link

Method of and system for automatically producing digital images of a moving object, with pixels having a substantially uniform white level independent of the velocity of said moving object

Automatically-activated hand-supportable laser scanning bar code symbol reading system with data transmission activation switch

Method of reading bar code symbols on objects at a point-of-sale station by passing said objects through a complex of stationary coplanar illumination and imaging planes projected into a 3D imaging volume

Method of capturing and processing digital images of an object within the field of view (FOV) of a hand-supportable digitial image capture and processing system

Digital image capturing and processing system for automatically recognizing objects in a POS environment

Method of driving a plurality of visible and invisible LEDs so as to produce an illumination beam having a dynamically managed ratio of visible to invisible (IR) spectral energy/power during object illumination and imaging operations

Automatic omnidirectional bar code symbol reading system employing linear-type and area-type bar code symbol reading stations within the system housing

Digital-imaging code symbol reading system supporting automatic programming of system parameters for automatic configuration of said system in hands-on and hands-free modes of operation

KOTLARSKY ANATOLY

Optical code symbol reading system employing a LED-driven optical-waveguide structure for illuminating a manually-actuated trigger switch integrated within a hand-supportable system housing

Optical code symbol reading system employing an acoustic-waveguide structure for coupling sonic energy, produced from an electro-transducer, to sound wave ports formed in the system housing

Optical scanning system having an extended programming mode and method of unlocking restricted extended classes of features and functionalities embodied therewithin

Digital image capture and processing system employing an image formation and detection system having an area-type image detection array supporting single snap-shot and periodic snap-shot modes of image acquisition during object illumination and imaging operations

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Method of speckle-noise pattern reduction and apparatus therefor based on reducing the spatial-coherence of the planar laser illumination beam before it illuminates the target object by applying spatial phase modulation techniques during the transmission of the plib towards the target

ADAPTIVE OPTICS ASS

Ophthalmic instrument with adaptive optic subsystem that measures aberrations (including higher order aberrations) of a human eye and that provides a view of compensation of such aberrations to the human eye