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Mark Schmidt
Also filed as: SCHMIDT MARK · SCHMIDT MARK C · SCHMIDT MARK CHRISTOPHER
134 granted patents·8 pending applications·3,855 citations·filing 1996–2024
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142 records- 0199US7128266B2Hand-supportable digital imaging-based bar code symbol reader supporting narrow-area and wide-area modes of illumination and image captureMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2003·Granted Oct 31, 2006·785 cites·8 claims
- 0298US6913202B2Planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) engineMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Jul 5, 2005·105 cites·20 claims
- 0397US7520433B2Method 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 systemMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2007·Granted Apr 21, 2009·42 cites·17 claims
- 0497US7513430B2Digital image capturing and processing system employing an area-type image sensing array exposed to narrow-band illumination from a narrow-band illumination subsystem for a time duration controlled using a photodetector operated independently from said area-type image sensing arrayMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2006·Granted Apr 7, 2009·36 cites·28 claims
- 0597US7086595B2Method 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 thereinMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2004·Granted Aug 8, 2006·80 cites·28 claims
- 0696US7775436B2Method 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 operationsMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2007·Granted Aug 17, 2010·41 cites·4 claims
- 0796US7516898B2Digital image capturing and processing system for producing and projecting a complex of coplanar illumination and imaging planes into a 3D imaging volume and controlling illumination control parameters in said system using the detected motion and velocity of objectMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2007·Granted Apr 14, 2009·29 cites·16 claims
- 0896US7240844B2Hand-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 circuitryMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2004·Granted Jul 10, 2007·70 cites·9 claims
- 0995US7543749B2Digital image capturing and processing system having a plurality of coplanar illumination and imaging subsystems, each employing a dual-type coplanar linear illumination and imaging engine that supports image-processing based object motion and velocity detection, and automatic image formation and detection along the coplanar illumination and imaging plane produced therebyMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2007·Granted Jun 9, 2009·27 cites·13 claims
- 1095US7281661B2Hand-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 reflectionMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2004·Granted Oct 16, 2007·55 cites·25 claims
- 1195US6918541B2Object identification and attribute information acquisition and linking computer systemMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Jul 19, 2005·60 cites·21 claims
- 1294US7546952B2Method of illuminating objects during digital image capture operations by mixing visible and invisible spectral illumination energy at point of sale (POS) environmentsMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2007·Granted Jun 16, 2009·30 cites·6 claims
- 1394US7490774B2Hand-supportable imaging based bar code symbol reader employing automatic light exposure measurement and illumination control subsystem integrated thereinMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2004·Granted Feb 17, 2009·63 cites·10 claims
- 1494US7320431B2Digital imaging-based bar code symbol reading system employing a multi-mode illumination subsystem with far-field and near field led-based illumination arraysMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2004·Granted Jan 22, 2008·42 cites·19 claims
- 1594US7237722B2Hand-supported imaging-based bar code symbol reader employing a multi-mode image-processing based bar code reading subsystem with modular image-processing architectureMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2004·Granted Jul 3, 2007·42 cites·42 claims
- 1694US7185817B2Hand-supportable digital imaging-based bar codes symbol reader employing multi-mode subsystemsMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2004·Granted Mar 6, 2007·47 cites·9 claims
- 1794US6978936B2Method of and system for automatically producing digital images of moving objects, with pixels having a substantially uniform white level independent of the velocities of the moving objectsMETPOLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Dec 27, 2005·59 cites·14 claims
- 1893US7588188B2Pos-based digital image capturing and processing system using automatic object detection, spectral-mixing based illumination and linear imaging techniquesMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2007·Granted Sep 15, 2009·23 cites·7 claims
- 1993US7588190B2Digital-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 operationMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2006·Granted Sep 15, 2009·15 cites·17 claims
- 2093US7527200B2Planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) systems with integrated despeckling mechanisms provided thereinMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2006·Granted May 5, 2009·17 cites·10 claims
- 2193US7360706B2Hand-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 analysisMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2004·Granted Apr 22, 2008·39 cites·18 claims
- 2293US7357325B2Hand-supportable imaging-based bar code symbol reader employing a CMOS-type image sensor using global exposure techniquesMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2004·Granted Apr 15, 2008·39 cites·8 claims
- 2393US7273180B2Hand-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 imagesMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2004·Granted Sep 25, 2007·41 cites·20 claims
- 2493US7255279B2Hand-supportable digital imaging-based bar code reading system wherein, during each imaging cycle, a single frame of pixel data is automatically detected by a CMOS area-type image sensing array when substantially all rows of pixels therein are in a state of integration and have a common integration time, and then pixel data is transmitted from said CMOS area-type image sensing array into a FIFO buffer, and then mapped into memory for subsequent image processingMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2004·Granted Aug 14, 2007·37 cites·16 claims
- 2592US7806335B2Digital image capturing and processing system for automatically recognizing objects in a POS environmentMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2007·Granted Oct 5, 2010·22 cites·8 claims
- 2692US7428998B2Automatic hand-supportable image-based bar code symbol reader having image-processing based bar code reading subsystem employing simple decode image processing operations applied in an outwardly-directed manner referenced from the center of a captured narrow-area digital image of an object bearing a 1D bar code symbolMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2004·Granted Sep 30, 2008·34 cites·8 claims
- 2792US7178733B2Hand-supportable imaging-based bar code symbol reader employing automatic object presence and range detection to control the generation of near-field and far-field wide-area illumination during bar code symbol imaging operationsMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2004·Granted Feb 20, 2007·32 cites·4 claims
- 2892US6976626B2Wireless bar code symbol driven portable data terminal (PDT) system adapted for single handed operationMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2003·Granted Dec 20, 2005·84 cites·6 claims
- 2991US11995943B2Methods of and systems for controlling access to networked devices provided with machine-readable codes scanned by mobile phones and computing devicesSCOOTERBUG INC·Filed 2021·Granted May 28, 2024·2 cites·16 claims
- 3091US8490359B2Landscape edging block systemPEROTTI JOAN M·Filed 2011·Granted Jul 23, 2013·15 cites·23 claims
- 3191US8042740B2Method 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 volumeMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2007·Granted Oct 25, 2011·19 cites·9 claims
- 3291US7575170B2POS-based digital image capturing and processing system using automatic object detection, spectral-mixing based illumination and linear imaging techniquesMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2007·Granted Aug 18, 2009·21 cites·7 claims
- 3391US7267282B2Hand-supportable imaging-based bar code symbol reader capable of exposing an automatically detected object to a field of narrow-band LED-based illumination only when substantially all rows of pixels in a CMOS image sensing array are in a state of integrationMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2004·Granted Sep 11, 2007·29 cites·5 claims
- 3491US7225989B2Method of performing auto-discrimination of 1D/2D bar code symbologies in a semi-automatic hand-supportable imaging-based bar code symbol reader having narrow-area and wide-area image capture modes of operationMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2004·Granted Jun 5, 2007·29 cites·6 claims
- 3591US7188770B2Hand-supportable semi-automatic imaging-based bar code reading system wherein an led-based illumination subsystem automatically illuminates a detected target object in a narrow-area field of illumination, and illuminates the detected target object in a wide-area field of illumination upon manual activation of a trigger switchMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2004·Granted Mar 13, 2007·31 cites·25 claims
- 3691US6923374B2Neutron-beam based scanning system having an automatic object identification and attribute information acquisition and linking mechanism integrated thereinMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Aug 2, 2005·32 cites·25 claims
- 3790US7651028B2Intelligent system for automatically recognizing objects at a point of sale (POS) station by omni-directional imaging of the objects using a complex of coplanar illumination and imaging subsystemsMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2007·Granted Jan 26, 2010·10 cites·20 claims
- 3890US7571858B2POS-based digital image capturing and processing system using automatic object detection, spectral-mixing based illumination and linear imaging techniquesMETROLOGIC INSTRUEMTNS INC·Filed 2007·Granted Aug 11, 2009·23 cites·10 claims
- 3989US7614560B2Method of illuminating objects at a point of sale (POS) station by adaptively controlling the spectral composition of the wide-area illumination beam produced from an illumination subsystem within an automatic digital image capture and processing systemMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2007·Granted Nov 10, 2009·16 cites·9 claims
- 4089US7604175B2Method of reading bar code symbols using a digital-imaging based code symbol reading system employing an event-driven multi-tier modular software architecture and supporting automatic operating system login and loading of bar code symbol reading applicationMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2007·Granted Oct 20, 2009·8 cites·12 claims
- 4189US7278575B2Hand-supportable image-based bar code symbol reader employing helically-sweeping feature-extraction analysis on a captured digital image of an object referenced from the center thereofMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2004·Granted Oct 9, 2007·24 cites·6 claims
- 4289US7213762B2Hand-supportable imaging-based bar code symbol reader employing a CMOS-type image sensing array in combination with a band-pass optical filter subsystem, narrow-band illumination subsystem, and automatic light exposure measurement and illumination control subsystemMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2004·Granted May 8, 2007·23 cites·5 claims
- 4389US6860427B1Automatic optical projection scanner for omni-directional reading of bar code symbols within a confined scanning volumeMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Mar 1, 2005·60 cites·47 claims
- 4489US6772949B2Portable hand-supportable data terminal with automatically-activated laser scanning bar code symbol reader integrated thereinMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Aug 10, 2004·46 cites·45 claims
- 4589US6607133B2Automatically-activated hand-supportable laser scanning bar code symbol reading system with data transmission activation switchMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2001·Granted Aug 19, 2003·46 cites·37 claims
- 4688US6915954B2Programmable data element queuing, handling, processing and linking device integrated into an object identification and attribute acquisition systemMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Jul 12, 2005·19 cites·6 claims
- 4787US12479521B2Wireless network, systems and methods for configuration, operation and use of motorized, wheeled and steerable passenger-carrying carts for entertainment purposesSCOOTERBUG INC·Filed 2022·Granted Nov 25, 2025·1 cites·14 claims
- 4887US7303132B2X-radiation scanning system having an automatic object identification and attribute information acquisition and linking mechanism integrated thereinMETEROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Dec 4, 2007·23 cites·25 claims
- 4987US7059524B2Nuclear resonance based scanning system having an automatic object identification and attribute information acquisition and linking mechanism integrated thereinMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Jun 13, 2006·14 cites·25 claims
- 5087USD385265SHand-supportable laser scannerMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 1996·Granted Oct 21, 1997·33 cites·1 claims
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