Registers – Coded record sensors – Particular sensor structure
Reexamination Certificate
2005-10-11
2005-10-11
Le, Thien M. (Department: 2876)
Registers
Coded record sensors
Particular sensor structure
C235S462250, C235S472010
Reexamination Certificate
active
06953152
ABSTRACT:
A hand-supportable planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) based camera system for producing digital linear images of a object within a working range, having a substantially uniform white level independent of the velocity of the object. The hand-supportable PLIIM based camera system comprises a PLIIM based imaging system having a linear image detection array with a field of view (FOV), a planar laser illumination array (PLIA) with a plurality of laser diodes arranged in a linear array for producing a planar laser illumination beam (PLIB) coplanar with the FOV, and a micro-controller for controlling the operation of the PLIIM based imaging system. An object velocity measurement subsystem is mounted within its hand-supportable housing, for determining the velocity of the object relative to the hand-supportable housing and generating object velocity data indicative of the determined velocity of the object. During object illumination and imaging operations, the micro-controller uses the object velocity data compute the optical power which each laser diode must produce in order that each digital image of the object, formed by illuminating the object with the computed optical power, will have substantially the same white intensity level independent of the velocity of the object relative to the PLIIM-based imaging system. The computed optical power value(s) are transmitted to the micro-controller, and the micro-controller uses the computed optical power value(s) to drive each laser diode so that it produces a planar laser illumination beam having the computed optical power level with the FOV. By virtue of the present invention, the planar laser illumination beam illuminates the object, and the PLIIM-based imaging system automatically produces a digital image of the moving object, with pixels having a substantially uniform white level, independent of the velocity of the object. Such image characteristics enables simpler and more reliable image processing in applications such as, for example, optical character recognition (OCR) processing, where image pixels having a substantially uniform white level, and a uniform aspect-ratio, are often desired or required.
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