公开(公告)号：US06744938B1

公开(公告)日：2004-06-01

申请号：US09519656

申请日：2000-03-06

申请人： Edward G. Rantze ,  Joseph M. Lindacher

发明人： Edward G. Rantze ,  Joseph M. Lindacher

IPC分类号： G06K920

CPC分类号： G06Q30/06 ,  G06K9/00 ,  G07G1/0045 ,  G07G1/14

摘要： The present invention provides a system, method and apparatus for identifying a product through reading of the product label by a retail terminal. The product/product label is scanned by an imager of a retail terminal. An attribute recognition program such as an optical character recognition (OCR) program is used on the scanned product label which generates text strings from alphanumeric label information and graphics maps/images from graphics/logos. Text strings and/or graphics data are then compared to various text strings and graphics data in a database or look-up table to return information relative to the scanned text string(s)/graphic(s). In one form, kiosks, incorporating an imager and the necessary hardware and software to scan a product label and process the scanned information in accordance with the present principles, may provide printouts of product information, instructions, order forms or the like for the scanned product. Additionally, standard queries or user-generated queries may be answered relative to the scanned product label. Data, stored either locally or at a remote site accessible via a network or the like, is correlated to a plurality of text strings/graphics that correspond to alphanumeric text/graphics on a plurality of product labels.

摘要翻译： 本发明提供一种通过零售终端读取产品标签来识别产品的系统，方法和装置。 产品/产品标签由零售终端的成像器扫描。 在扫描产品标签上使用诸如光学字符识别（OCR）程序的属性识别程序，其从字母数字标签信息和来自图形/标识的图形图像/图像生成文本串。 然后将文本字符串和/或图形数据与数据库或查找表中的各种文本字符串和图形数据进行比较，以返回相对于扫描的文本字符串/图形的信息。 在一种形式中，结合成像仪的信息亭和根据本原理扫描产品标签和处理扫描信息的必要的硬件和软件可以提供扫描产品的产品信息，指令，订单等的打印输出 。 此外，标准查询或用户生成的查询可以相对于扫描的产品标签进行回答。 存储在本地或在通过网络等可访问的远程站点的数据与多个产品标签上对应于字母数字文本/图形的多个文本串/图形相关联。

公开(公告)号：US5148009A

公开(公告)日：1992-09-15

申请号：US625324

申请日：1990-12-10

申请人： Joseph M. Lindacher

发明人： Joseph M. Lindacher

IPC分类号： G06K7/10

CPC分类号： G06K7/10871 ,  G06K7/10881

摘要： A portable bar code scanner includes a housing member having a supporting surface which includes an aperture extending in a horizontal direction through the housing member. The supporting surface includes a recessed portion which is in communication with the aperture and which supports a portable bar code scanner. A mirror member mounted within the aperture and at an angle to the supporting surface deflects the scanning light beams through the aperture for scanning coded indicia positioned adjacent the aperture. A second embodiment discloses a support member slidably positioned within the aperture from either end of the aperture in which is mounted a mirror member for deflecting the scanning light beams through the support member and the aperture.

公开(公告)号：US07562982B2

公开(公告)日：2009-07-21

申请号：US12004243

申请日：2007-12-20

申请人： Joseph M. Lindacher ,  Rafael V. Andino ,  Scott R. Robirds ,  Teresa DeCenzo-Verbeten

发明人： Joseph M. Lindacher ,  Rafael V. Andino ,  Scott R. Robirds ,  Teresa DeCenzo-Verbeten

IPC分类号： A61B3/00 ,  G02C7/02

CPC分类号： A61B3/028 ,  A61B3/103

摘要： An adaptive optics phoropter is aligned with a Badal optometer and an adjustable aperture component to subjectively determine an optimal vision correction as a power profile for an ophthalmic lens or ablating a cornea. The optimal power profile is preferably determined in an iterative process by adjusting the vergence of the Badal optometer and aperture size of the adjustable aperture component for power profiles with presbyopic power zones having different amplitudes, shapes, widths, and/or de-centering. Also included is a method of recursively computing a refractive surface with a regular presbyopic power zone (e.g., according to the optimal power profile) and adding it onto an underlying irregular Zernike-basis-set aberration-corrected surface in a linear fashion for fabricating an ophthalmic lens.

摘要翻译： 自适应光学瞄准器与巴达尔验光仪和可调节孔径组件对准，以主观地确定最佳视力矫正作为眼科镜片的功率曲线或消融角膜。 最佳功率曲线优选地通过调整巴达尔光度计的聚光度和可调节孔径分量的孔径尺寸来确定迭代过程，以便功率曲线与具有不同幅度，形状，宽度和/或去定心的老花眼功率区域。 还包括一种递归地计算具有规则的老花眼功率区域的折射表面的方法（例如，根据最佳功率曲线），并以线性方式将其添加到基本的不规则的Zernike基组的像差校正表面上，以制造 眼科镜片

公开(公告)号：US06726094B1

公开(公告)日：2004-04-27

申请号：US09488059

申请日：2000-01-19

申请人： Edward G. Rantze ,  Joseph M. Lindacher ,  Charles Kenneth Wike

发明人： Edward G. Rantze ,  Joseph M. Lindacher ,  Charles Kenneth Wike

IPC分类号： G06F1760

CPC分类号： G07G1/0054 ,  G06Q20/20 ,  G06Q20/202 ,  G06Q20/206 ,  G06Q20/208 ,  G06Q20/389 ,  G07F19/20 ,  G07F19/207 ,  G07G1/0045 ,  G07G3/00 ,  G07G3/003

摘要： A customer self-service terminal for use in conducting retail transactions. The terminal includes a camera having multi-mode image capability. When a customer wishes to conduct a transaction, the camera is used to scan product barcodes. The camera is set to capture an image of a barcode for extraction of data contained in the barcode. When all desired products have been scanned, the camera is used to record steps in the tendering of payment. The customer presents a financial identification card such as a credit or debit card and swipes it through a magnetic stripe reader. The customer then places the card in the field of view of the camera which is set to a video graphic mode to capture an image of the card for storage. The customer is then presented with a transaction document for signing. The camera is set to a live video mode to record the act of signing. After the transaction document has been signed, the camera captures an image of the signature. The captured images are associated with the transaction record and stored along with the transaction record, and the transaction is completed. The camera may also be set to provide a live video feed, which may be used sent to a remote security station for monitoring by a store employee.

摘要翻译： 用于进行零售交易的客户自助终端。 终端包括具有多模式图像能力的相机。 当客户希望进行交易时，相机用于扫描产品条形码。 相机被设置为捕获条形码图像以提取条形码中包含的数据。 当所有所需的产品都被扫描时，相机用于记录投标中的步骤。 客户提供金融识别卡，如信用卡或借记卡，并通过磁条阅读器进行刷卡。 然后，客户将卡放置在被设置为视频图形模式的相机的视野中以捕获卡的图像以进行存储。 然后向客户提供交易文件进行签名。 相机设置为实时视频模式，以记录签名的行为。 交易文件签署后，相机会拍摄签名的图像。 捕获的图像与事务记录相关联并与事务记录一起存储，并且事务完成。 摄像机也可以设置为提供实时视频馈送，其可以被发送到远程安全站以供商店员工监视。

公开(公告)号：US06293468B1

公开(公告)日：2001-09-25

申请号：US09184799

申请日：1998-11-02

申请人： Edward G. Rantze ,  Joseph M. Lindacher

发明人： Edward G. Rantze ,  Joseph M. Lindacher

IPC分类号： G06K710

CPC分类号： G06K7/10851 ,  G06K7/10584 ,  G06K7/10613

摘要： A barcode is scanned by a scanner having a laser emitting a pulsed laser beam which reflects off the barcode and is detected by a light detector. A receiver operatively joined to the light detector is tuned to the frequency of the pulsed laser beam for increasing signal gain.

摘要翻译： 通过扫描器扫描条形码，该扫描仪具有发射脉冲激光束的激光，其反射出条形码并由光检测器检测。 可操作地连接到光检测器的接收器被调谐到脉冲激光束的频率以增加信号增益。

公开(公告)号：US5484990A

公开(公告)日：1996-01-16

申请号：US168102

申请日：1993-12-15

申请人： Joseph M. Lindacher ,  Stephen J. Ames

发明人： Joseph M. Lindacher ,  Stephen J. Ames

IPC分类号： G06K7/10

CPC分类号： G06K7/10811 ,  G06K2207/1013

摘要： A multiple depth of field optical scanner which produces a plurality of scan beams having different focal distances. The optical scanner includes a laser beam having a centerline, a mirrored spinner having a plurality of facets with different curvatures, a detector, and a microcontroller. The optical scanner may additionally include a deflector mirror for changing the direction of the laser beam, collecting optics for equalizing the optical coupling of the reflected light across the field of view of the facets, a distance selection circuit for instructing the microcontroller within the scanner to decode bar code information from a predetermined range of focal distances and an amplification circuit for amplifying the electrical signals from the detector enough to produce other electrical signals having substantially equal amplitudes. The microcontroller may also include the feature of reducing laser power when the scan beams focus more than a predetermined distance from the centerline of the laser beam.

摘要翻译： 多场景光学扫描器，其产生具有不同焦距的多个扫描光束。 光学扫描器包括具有中心线的激光束，具有多个具有不同曲率的小平面的镜像旋转器，检测器和微控制器。 光学扫描器可以另外包括用于改变激光束的方向的偏转镜，收集用于均衡反射光的光学耦合的光学元件，用于在该视面的视场之间进行平衡;距离选择电路，用于指示扫描仪内的微控制器 从预定范围的焦距解码条形码信息，以及用于放大来自检测器的电信号的放大电路，足以产生具有基本相等振幅的其它电信号。 微控制器还可以包括当扫描光束从激光束的中心线聚焦超过预定距离时降低激光功率的特征。

公开(公告)号：US5196696A

公开(公告)日：1993-03-23

申请号：US833238

申请日：1992-02-10

申请人： Joseph M. Lindacher

发明人： Joseph M. Lindacher

IPC分类号： G06K7/10

CPC分类号： G06K7/10871 ,  G06K2207/1013 ,  G06K2207/1016

摘要： An optical scanning unit which employs a mirrored spinner and a plurality of pattern mirrors that counter rotate to produce an omnidirectional scan pattern having a predetermined depth of field. The pattern mirrors are mounted within a drum which rotates freely within the scanner housing. The optical scanning unit employs a variable drive gear mechanism to counter rotate the spinner and pattern mirrors using a single motor. The optical scanning unit additionally employs a collection filtering system for filtering Fresnel reflections from light reflected from an article having a bar code label to be scanned. A plurality of scanning units may be arranged vertically or horizontally to form a multiple depth-of-field optical scanner.

摘要翻译： 一种光学扫描单元，其采用镜像旋转器和反向旋转的多个图案反射镜，以产生具有预定景深的全向扫描图案。 图案反射镜安装在扫描仪外壳内自由旋转的滚筒内。 光学扫描单元使用可变驱动齿轮机构来使用单个电动机来反转旋转旋转器和图案反射镜。 光学扫描单元另外采用收集滤波系统，用于从具有要扫描的条形码标签的物品反射的光中过滤菲涅耳反射。 多个扫描单元可以垂直或水平布置以形成多个景深光学扫描仪。

公开(公告)号：US5173603A

公开(公告)日：1992-12-22

申请号：US765620

申请日：1991-09-25

申请人： Joseph M. Lindacher

发明人： Joseph M. Lindacher

IPC分类号： G02B5/09 ,  G02B26/12 ,  G06K7/015 ,  G06K7/10

CPC分类号： G06K7/10811 ,  G02B26/122 ,  G02B5/09 ,  G06K2207/1013

摘要： A focus changing apparatus and method for an optical scanner which can easily be adapted to existing optical scanners or can provide the front end for a new scanner. The laser beam focus changing apparatus may be optically located between a laser source and a mirrored spinner and includes a plurality of spherical mirror segments having a predetermined radius. Each is located at its respective radius from a common axis. A rotating device, such as a motor, rotates the spherical mirror segments about their common axis. The spherical mirror segments may be mounted on top of the mirrored spinner. If so, the focus changing apparatus may additionally include a deflector mirror for deflecting the beam towards the spherical mirror segments and a spherical mirror adjacent the deflector mirror is optically located to receive the beam after it is reflected from the spherical mirror segments and to redirect the beam towards the mirrored spinner.

摘要翻译： 一种用于光学扫描器的聚焦改变装置和方法，其可以容易地适应于现有的光学扫描仪，或者可以为新的扫描仪提供前端。 激光束聚焦改变装置可以光学地位于激光源和镜像旋转器之间，并且包括具有预定半径的多个球面镜片段。 每个都位于其公共轴的相应半径处。 诸如电动机的旋转装置围绕其公共轴线旋转球面镜片段。 球面镜片段可以安装在镜像旋转器的顶部。 如果是这样，则聚焦改变装置可以另外包括偏转镜，用于将光束偏转到球面镜部分，并且与偏转镜相邻的球面镜被光学地定位成在从球面镜片段反射之后接收光束， 朝向镜像的旋转器。