| 序号 | 专利名 | 申请号 | 申请日 | 公开（公告）号 | 公开（公告）日 | 发明人 |
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| 241 | 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 | US11978951 | 2007-10-30 | US07775436B2 | 2010-08-17 | C. Harry Knowles; Xiaoxun Zhu; Timothy Good; Tao Xian; Anatoly Kotlarsky; Michael Veksland; Mark Hernandez; John Gardner; Steven Essinger; Patrick Giordano; Sean Kearney; Mark Schmidt; John A. Furlong; Nicholas Ciarlante; Yong Liu; Jie Ren; Xi Tao; JiBin Liu; Ming Zhuo; Duane Ellis |
| A method of driving a plurality of visible and invisible laser diodes 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. The method involves supplying a plurality of visible laser and invisible laser diodes with a predetermined/default values of diode drive currents so as to illuminate the object with a spectral mixture of illumination during object illumination and imaging operations. One or more digital images of the illuminated object are captured and the image contrast quality thereof is measured, in real-time, so as to generate feedback or control data. This feedback or control data is used to dynamically generate the necessary values for the adjusted diode drive currents that are used to drive the visible and invisible laser diodes and produce an illumination beam having a dynamically managed ratio of visible to invisible (IR) spectral energy/power required to produce images of sufficient image contrast to ensure satisfactory image processing, while minimizing visual brightness to humans, at a POS station during object illumination and imaging operations. | ||||||
| 242 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING TRANSACTION STATISTICS TO FACILITATE CHECKOUT VARIANCE INVESTIGATION | US12347129 | 2008-12-31 | US20100169169A1 | 2010-07-01 | Jonathan H. Connell, II; Myron D. Flickner; Norman Haas; Arun Hampapur; Sharathchandra U. Pankanti; Andrew W. Senior; Chiao-Fe Shu |
| An approach that allows for facilitating checkout related fraud investigation is presented. In one embodiment, there is described a generating tool configured to generate a set of benchmark parameters based on results of a cumulative learning process; a normalizing tool configured to normalize said set of benchmark parameters; an establishing tool configured to establish a confidence time interval required for identifying normal variations; a recording tool configured to record a particular checker's transactions during said confidence time interval, and an identifying tool configured to identify transactions, recorded during said confidence time interval, that fail meeting said set of benchmark parameters. | ||||||
| 243 | Coplanar laser illumination and imaging subsystem employing spectral-mixing and despeckling of laser illumination | US11978521 | 2007-10-29 | US07661597B2 | 2010-02-16 | C. Harry Knowles; Xiaoxun Zhu; Timothy Good; Tao Xian; Anatoly Kotlarsky; Michael Veksland; Mark Hernandez; John Gardner; Steven Essinger; Patrick Giordano; Sean Kearney; Mark Schmidt; John Furlong; Nicholas Ciarlante; Yong Liu; Jie Ren; Xi Tao; JiBin Liu; Ming Zhuo; Duane Ellis |
| A coplanar laser illumination and imaging subsystem deployable in an image capturing and processing system, and including an image formation and detection (IFD) subsystem having an image sensing array and optics providing a field of view (FOV) on the image sensing array, and forming an image of an object within the FOV and detecting said image on the image sensing array and producing a digital image thereof. The system includes a spectral-mixing based illumination subsystem having an array of VLDs for producing a visible illumination beam, and an array of infrared (IR) laser diodes (LDs) for producing an invisible illumination beam. The visible and invisible illumination beams spatially overlaps and spatially/temporally intermixes with each other to produce a composite spectrally-mixed illumination beam having a relative power ratio of visible illumination to invisible illumination (VIS/IR), and is substantially coplanar with the FOV of said image sensing array. A laser despeckling mechanism is provided for reducing the coherence of the composite spectrally-mixed illumination beam, and/or its components, so that the digital images produced by the IFD subsystem having substantially reduced levels of speckle-pattern noise when the laser despeckling mechanism is operational. | ||||||
| 244 | OPERATION MONITORING AND ENHANCED HOST COMMUNICATIONS IN SYSTEMS EMPLOYING ELECTRONIC ARTICLE SURVEILLANCE AND RFID TAGS | US12435989 | 2009-05-05 | US20100001863A1 | 2010-01-07 | Mohamed A. Salim; Harold C. Clifford; Alan Jackson Guess; Bruce Edward Paris |
| A system and method for monitoring operation and performance of electronic tags such as article surveillance (EAS) tags or radio frequency identification (RFID) tags such as by monitoring and reporting electronic tag readability and operator/system performance levels. The system includes an optical symbol reader and/or electronic tag sensor/deactivator that measures and reports values of reading, detection, or deactivation events during operation which may be indicative of electronic tag operability. The apparatus may further comprise a data accumulation device including memory storage to accumulate the measurement values for each set of electronic tags, and a programmed computing system to analyze the measured values and report on the results of the analysis. | ||||||
| 245 | POS-based digital image capturing and processing system using automatic object detection, spectral-mixing based illumination and linear imaging techniques | US11978525 | 2007-10-29 | US07575170B2 | 2009-08-18 | C. Harry Knowles; Xiaoxun Zhu; Timothy Good; Tao Xian; Anatoly Kotlarsky; Michael Veksland; Mark Hernandez; John Gardner; Steven Essinger; Patrick Giordano; Sean Kearney; Mark Schmidt; John Furlong; Nicholas Ciarlante; Yong Liu; Jie Ren; Xi Tao; JiBin Liu; Ming Zhuo; Duane Ellis |
| A method of illuminating objects using adaptively controlled mixing of spectral illumination energy to form and detect digital images of objects at POS environments with sufficiently high image contrast and quality. The method comprises providing, at a POS environment, a digital image capture and processing system having a system housing with an imaging window, and a coplanar illumination and imaging station disposed within said system housing, for projecting a coplanar illumination and imaging plane through the imaging window into an imaging volume during object illumination and imaging operations. As the object is moved through the imaging volume, its motion is automatically detected, and signals indicative of said detected object are generated. In response to the generated signals, a first field of visible illumination is produced from an array of visible laser diodes (VLDs), simultaneously with a second field of invisible illumination from a array of infrared (IR) laser diodes (LDs). These first and second fields of illumination spatially overlap and intermix with each other and produce a composite planar illumination beam that is substantially coextensive with the FOV. During object illumination and imaging operations, the relative power ratio (VIS/IR) of these fields of visible illumination and invisible illumination are controlled as one or more linear digital images of the illuminated object are formed and detected, captured and buffered, and ultimately processed so as to read one or more 1D and/or 2D code symbols graphically represented in the digital images. In an illustrative embodiment, during object illumination and imaging operations operation, the relative power ratio (VIS/IR) is adaptively controlled to form and detect digital images of objects at POS environments with sufficiently high image contrast and quality. | ||||||
| 246 | POS-based digital image capturing and processing system using automatic object detection, spectral-mixing based illumination and linear imaging techniques | US11978535 | 2007-10-29 | US07571858B2 | 2009-08-11 | C. Harry Knowles; Xiaoxun Zhu; Timothy Good; Tao Xian; Anatoly Kotlarsky; Michael Veksland; Mark Hernandez; John Gardner; Steven Essinger; Patrick Giordano; Sean Kearney; Mark Schmidt; John A. Furlong; Nicholas Ciarlante; Yong Liu; Jie Ren; Xi Tao; JiBin Liu; Ming Zhuo; Duane Ellis |
| A POS-based digital image capturing and processing system for illuminating objects using automatic object detection and spectral-mixing illumination technique. The system comprises a coplanar illumination and imaging station for projecting at least one coplanar illumination and imaging plane into an imaging volume during object illumination and imaging operations. The coplanar illumination and imaging station includes an illumination subsystem for producing a first field of visible illumination from an array of visible VLDs, and producing a second field of invisible illumination from an array of infrared (IR) laser diodes (IR-LDs). Wherein the first and second fields of illumination spatially overlap and intermix with each other and are substantially coplanar with the FOV of the linear image sensing array. An automatic object detection subsystem automatically detects an object moving through the imaging volume, while an illumination control subsystem controls the relative power ratio (VIS/IR) of visible illumination and invisible illumination during system operation so as to minimize the amount of visible illumination energy required to capture sufficiently high-contrast images of said objects and successfully process the same. | ||||||
| 247 | Self-guiding interface for customer service machines | US12008877 | 2008-01-15 | US20090182638A1 | 2009-07-16 | Jason Taylor |
| A customer service machine, such as a self check-out terminal, includes a visual indicator and a proximity sensor associated with certain functional components or stations of the terminal, such as itemization, bagging and payment stations. The visual indicator is configured to provide a visual signal to either encourage or deter customer activity at the particular station, depending upon whether any activity is required to further a transaction being conducted at the terminal. The proximity sensor at each station determines whether the customer is about to take action at that station. A controller determines whether the action is appropriate, and if not activates the visual indicator to deter such action, or if so activates the visual indicator to encourage such action. In one embodiment, the visual indicator includes a red light that is illuminated to deter action and a green light that is activated to encourage action. | ||||||
| 248 | Tunnel-type digital imaging-based system for use in automated self-checkout and cashier-assisted checkout operations in retail store environments | US12283439 | 2008-09-11 | US20090134221A1 | 2009-05-28 | Xiaoxun Zhu; Tao Xian; Jie Ren; John Gardner; Sean Kearney; Timothy Good; Michael Schnee; Yong Liu; Patrick Giordano; Liang Wang; JiBin Liu; Ming Zhuo; Steven Essinger; Konstantin Yakovlev; Anatoly Kotlarsky; Xi Tao; Jun Lu; Ka Man Au; Duane Ellis; C. Harry Knowles |
| A tunnel-type digital imaging-based system capable of generating and projecting coplanar and/or coextensive illumination and imaging planes or zones into a 3D imaging volume within a tunnel structure. The system includes a tunnel housing structure which is supported above a package conveyor in a retail environment, and employs automatic package detection, identification, profiling/dimensioning, weighing, tracking and correlating techniques during self-checkout and/or cashier-assisted operations for achieving increased levels of efficiency and productivity. | ||||||
| 249 | Digital image capturing and processing system for automatically recognizing graphical intelligence graphically represented in digital images of objects | US11980080 | 2007-10-30 | US20090101719A1 | 2009-04-23 | C. Harry Knowles; Xiaoxun Zhu; Timothy Good; Tao Xian; Anatoly Kotlarsky; Michael Veksland; Mark Hernandez; John Gardner; Steven Essinger; Patrick Giordano; Sean Kearney; Mark Schmidt; John A. Furlong; Nicholas Ciarlante; Yong Liu; Jie Ren; Xi Tao; JiBin Liu; Ming Zhuo; Duane Ellis |
| A digital image capturing and processing system including a system housing having an imaging window; illumination and imaging stations for generating and projecting illumination and imaging planes or zones through the imaging window, and into a 3D imaging volume definable relative to the imaging window, for digital imaging an object passing through the 3D imaging volume, and generating digital linear images of the object as the object intersects the illumination and imaging planes or zones during system operation. A digital image processor processes the digital images and automatically recognizes graphical intelligence (e.g. bar code symbols, alphanumeric characters etc) graphically represented in the digital images. | ||||||
| 250 | Detecting Component Removal | US11846356 | 2007-08-28 | US20090058641A1 | 2009-03-05 | Stephen Michael DeMarco |
| Component removal detection may be accomplished by a variety of systems and techniques. In one embodiment, a system for component movement detection may include a payment module, a fuel dispenser, and a movement detection device. The fuel dispenser may receive the payment module and enclose the payment module at a first position defined by a fixed position of the payment module relative to the fuel dispenser. The movement detection device may be communicably coupled to the payment module and may detect a first value at the first position and a second value at a second position of the payment module, where the second position may be different from the first position. Further, the movement detection device may transmit the second value to the payment module, where the payment module may activate a security measure based upon a difference in the first and second values greater than an adjustable absolute limit. | ||||||
| 251 | FUEL DISPENSER | US12191066 | 2008-08-13 | US20090048945A1 | 2009-02-19 | Jonathan E. DeLine |
| A method of conducting a transaction at a fuel dispenser comprising the steps of providing a fuel dispenser having a housing, a fuel dispensing apparatus mounted within the housing, the fuel dispensing apparatus having control electronics, and at least one touch display mounted in the housing and operatively coupled to the control electronics, the touch display being configured to allow a user to make selections for conducting a transaction. The fuel dispensing apparatus control electronics is operatively connected to electronics in a store associated with the fuel dispenser. The method further comprises the steps of presenting a real-time image of an inside of the store, moving through the store by touching the at least one touch display, and selecting a product being shown in the real-time image for purchase by touching the at least one touch display. | ||||||
| 252 | System and method for integrating and characterizing data from multiple electronic systems | US10742607 | 2003-12-19 | US07474330B2 | 2009-01-06 | Andrew Wren; Christopher Ashe; Scott Fairbairn; Kenneth Dutch Schultz |
| A computer-based platform is provided for integrating data from multiple systems including (but not limited to) point of sale (POS) terminals, video systems, electronic article surveillance (EAS) systems, automatic teller machines (ATMs), gas pumps, alarm systems, radio frequency identification (RFID) detection systems, etc. The subject computer-based platform is configured to gather and correlate data (e.g., transactional data and/or video data), package such data into multiple discrete system “events”, and to provide various features for proactively identifying selected events as “exceptions”. Additional aspects of the computer-based platform may be utilized to provide signaled identification to a user of identified exceptions and other integrated system data. Still further aspects of the platform can be used to group these new events to create larger groupings of multiple transactions, events, data, exceptions, and/or research. This larger grouping can be derived from similar or diverse input systems and can be treated as a new entity that can be acted on independently. | ||||||
| 253 | Digital image capture and processing systems for supporting 3D imaging volumes in retail point-of-sale environments | US11880087 | 2007-07-19 | US20080283611A1 | 2008-11-20 | C. Harry Knowles; Xiaoxun Zhu; Timothy Good; Tao Xian; Anatoly Kotlarsky; Michael Veksland; Mark Hernandez; John Gardner; Steven Essinger; Patrick Giordano; Sean Kearney; Mark Schmidt; John A. Furlong; Nicholas Ciarlante; Yong Liu; Jie Ren; Xi Tao; JiBin Liu; Ming Zhuo; Duane Ellis |
| Digital image capture and processing systems and methods for generating and projecting coplanar illumination and imaging planes and/or coextensive area-type illumination and imaging zones, through one or more imaging windows, and into a 3D imaging volume in a retail POS environments, while employing automatic object motion and/or velocity detection, real-time image analysis and other techniques to capture and processing high-quality digital images of objects passing through the 3D imaging volume, and intelligently controlling and/or managing the use of visible and invisible forms of illumination, during object illumination and imaging operations, that might otherwise annoy or disturb human operators and/or customers working and/or shopping in such retail environments. | ||||||
| 254 | POS-centric digital imaging system | US11980329 | 2007-10-30 | US20080249884A1 | 2008-10-09 | C. Harry Knowles; Xiaoxun Zhu; Timothy Good; Tao Xian; Anatoly Kotlarsky; Michael Veksland; Mark Hernandez; John Gardner; Steven Essinger; Patrick Giordano; Sean Kearney; Mark Schmidt; John A. Furlong; Nicholas Ciarlante; Yong Liu; Jie Ren; Xi Tao; JiBin Liu; Ming Zhuo; Duane Ellis |
| A POS-centric digital imaging system for installation at a retail point of sale (POS) station having a countertop surface. The POS-centric digital imaging system includes a system housing having at least one imaging window, and providing a cashier side and a customer side for the POS-centric digital imaging system. An omni-directional digital image capturing and processing subsystem is disposed in the system housing, for generating a 3D imaging volume adjacent the imaging window. A cashier/customer terminal is integrated within the system housing, for simultaneously supporting (i) cashier product scanning/imaging and checkout operations on said cashier side, and (ii) customer payment and other services on said customer side. | ||||||
| 255 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ALERTING AN OPERATOR | US11696392 | 2007-04-04 | US20080245581A1 | 2008-10-09 | Ronald W. Tamkin; J. Thomas King; Kevin A. Russo |
| A system for alerting an operator of a weighing apparatus is described. The weighing apparatus may be capable of displaying a message in a message area to an operator. The message may be displayed in response to a command sent from a remote device. | ||||||
| 256 | SMALL FOOTPRINT SELF CHECKOUT SYSTEM | US12131883 | 2008-06-02 | US20080235102A1 | 2008-09-25 | Richard H. Harris; Hollis P. Posey |
| Aspects of a self checkout system are described. The system includes a product imaging scanner. Also included is a bag rack with scales substantially adjacent the product imaging scanner for holding a bag to receive imaged products. A computer system is coupled to the product imaging scanner and the bag rack for processing data from the product imaging scanner and the bag rack to ensure complete and secure product purchasing. | ||||||
| 257 | PERSONALIZED AUDIOGRAPHS IN ASSOCIATION WITH COLLECTIBLES | US11926592 | 2007-10-29 | US20080177405A1 | 2008-07-24 | Brian M. Galvin; Marshall S. Votta |
| Aspects of the present invention relate to improved systems and methods adapted to receive an audio recording from a celebrity, store the audio recording in a digital format, wherein the audio recording contains a personalized message from the celebrity to an intended recipient, transfer the audio recording with authentication information to a portable memory facility, and associate the portable memory facility with a collectible item. | ||||||
| 258 | Laser beam despeckling devices | US11980319 | 2007-10-30 | US20080149726A1 | 2008-06-26 | C. Harry Knowles; Xiaoxun Zhu; Timothy Good; Tao Xian; Anatoly Kotlarsky; Michael Veksland; Mark Hernandez; John Gardner; Steven Essinger; Patrick Giordano; Sean Kearney; Mark Schmidt; John A. Furlong; Nicholas Ciarlante; Yong Liu; Jie Ren; Xi Tao; JiBin Liu; Ming Zhuo; Duane Ellis |
| A multi-stage laser beam despeckling device including a first laser beam despeckling module for optically multiplexing an input laser beam into a temporal/spatial coherence-reduced output laser beam; and a second laser beam despeckling module, optically coupled to the first laser beam despeckling module, for receiving the temporal/spatial coherence-reduced as an input laser beam to the second despeckling module and producing a further temporal/spatial coherence-reduced output laser beam. | ||||||
| 259 | Pos-based digital image capturing and processing system using automatic object detection, spectral-mixing based illumination and linear imaging techniques | US11978535 | 2007-10-29 | US20080142596A1 | 2008-06-19 | C. Harry Knowles; Xiaoxun Zhu; Timothy Good; Tao Xian; Anatoly Kotlarsky; Michael Veksland; Mark Hernandez; John Gardner; Steven Essinger; Patrick Giordano; Sean Kearney; Mark Schmidt; John A. Furlong; Nicholas Ciarlante; Yong Liu; Jie Ren; Xi Tao; JiBin Liu; Ming Zhuo; Duane Ellis |
| A POS-based digital image capturing and processing system for illuminating objects using automatic object detection and spectral-mixing illumination technique. The system comprises an coplanar illumination and imaging station for projecting at least one coplanar illumination and imaging plane into a imaging volume during object illumination and imaging operations. The coplanar illumination and imaging station includes an illumination subsystem for producing a first field of visible illumination from an array of visible VLDs, and producing a second field of invisible illumination from an array of infrared (IR) laser diodes (IR-LDs). wherein the first and second fields of illumination spatially overlap and intermix with each other and are substantially coplanar with the FOV of the linear image sensing array. An automatic object detection subsystem automatically detects an object moving through the imaging volume, while an illumination control subsystem controls the relative power ratio (VIS/IR) of visible illumination and invisible illumination during system operation so as to minimize the amount of visible illumination energy required to capture sufficiently high-contrast images of said objects and successfully process the same. | ||||||
| 260 | Digital imaging system employing the spectral-mixing of visible and invisible laser illumination during object imaging operations | US11978522 | 2007-10-29 | US20080121719A1 | 2008-05-29 | C. Harry Knowles; Xiaoxun Zhu; Timothy Good; Tao Xian; Anatoly Kotlarsky; Michael Veksland; Mark Hernandez; John Gardner; Steven Essinger; Patrick Giordano; Sean Kearney; Mark Schmidt; John A. Furlong; Nicholas Ciarlante; Yong Liu; Jie Ren; Xi Tao; JiBin Liu; Ming Zhuo; Duane Ellis |
| A digital image capturing and processing system including an image formation and detection (IFD) subsystem having a linear image sensing array and optics providing a field of view (FOV) on the linear image sensing array. A spectral-mixing based illumination subsystem produces a first field of visible laser illumination produced from an array of visible VLDs, and a second field of invisible laser illumination produced from an array of IR laser diodes (LDs) that spatially overlap and intermix with each other so as to produce a composite planar laser illumination beam which is substantially with the FOV of the linear image sensing array. An illumination control subsystem controls the spectral mixing of visible and invisible laser illumination produced from the spectral-mixing based illumination subsystem, by adaptively controlling the relative power ratio (VIS/IR) of said fields of visible and invisible laser illumination. An image capturing and buffering subsystem captures and buffers images from the image sensing array. An automatic object detection subsystem automatically detects the an object moving through at least a portion of the FOV of the linear image sensing array, and generation a control activation signal. A control subsystem, responsive to the control activation signal, controls the operations of the subsystems within the illumination and imaging station. | ||||||
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