Registers – Coded record sensors – Particular sensor structure
Reexamination Certificate
2007-03-28
2008-12-09
St.Cyr, Daniel (Department: 2876)
Registers
Coded record sensors
Particular sensor structure
C235S462140
Reexamination Certificate
active
07461790
ABSTRACT:
A data reader such as for example an imaging reader with a CCD or CMOS imager or the like, that acquires an image of an item to be read. A certain type of sensor has been found to exhibit different outputs depending upon the light intensity level: (1) standard output whereby the sensor outputs a signal corresponding to the image collected and (2) inverted output whereby the sensor outputs an inverted signal when the light intensity highly saturates the sensor. Taking advantage of this inverted output, systems and methods are then employed by the data reader to convert or otherwise re-invert this inverted signal in order to read an optical code that, for example, might otherwise have been above the upper exposure limit of the sensor/reader and thus not decodable.
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McQueen Alexander M.
Turkal Randy J.
Datalogic Scanning, Inc.
St.Cyr Daniel
Stoel Rives LLP
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