Tunnel-type digital imaging-based system for use in automated self-checkout and cashier-assisted checkout operations in retail store environments
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Abstract
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.
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1-84. -84. (canceled)
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85. A tunnel-type digital imaging-based system for use in automated self-checkout and cashier-assisted checkout operations in retail store environments, said tunnel-type digital imaging-based system comprising:
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a conveyor belt structure installed at a retail POS station; a tunnel housing arrangement having an input port and an output port, and supported over said conveyor belt structure so that said conveyor structure transports objects from said input port to said output port, through said tunnel housing arrangement, during tunnel scanning operations; a plurality of illumination and imaging subsystems mounted within said tunnel housing arrangement, and generating a plurality of illumination beams and field of views that are projected and intersect to generate a complex of illumination and imaging regions within a 3D imaging volume above said conveyor belt structure within said tunnel housing arrangement, for omni-directional imaging of objects passed therethrough during tunnel scanning operations so as to capture linear digital images of said objects; and a digital image processor for processing said digital images so as to read code symbols on said objects, and identify each said object being transported through said tunnel housing arrangement. - View Dependent Claims (86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105)
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