APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF USE OF IMAGING ASSEMBLY ON MOBILE TERMINAL

• US 20120196649A1
• Filed: 03/26/2012
• Published: 08/02/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hand Held Products Incorporated (Honeywell International Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hand Held Products Incorporated (Honeywell International Inc.)
• Inventors: Havens, William H., Wang, Ynjiun Paul, Stiles, Jonathan
• Granted Patent: US 8,599,271 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/556.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/06028 using bar codes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/08 Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/40 in video content extracting overlay text G06V20/62; video retrieval G06F16/70; processing of video elementary streams in video servers H04N21/234; processing of video elementary streams in video clients H04N21/44
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/142 using hand-held instruments; Constructional details of the instruments
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00307 with a mobile telephone apparatus constructional features of portable telephone sets H04M1/0202; mobile radio systems H04W84/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2007/145 Handheld terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/45 for generating image signals from two or more image sensors being of different type or operating in different modes, e.g. with a CMOS sensor for moving images in combination with a charge-coupled device [CCD] for still images
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/51 Housings
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/698 for achieving an enlarged field of view, e.g. panoramic image capture
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/80 Camera processing pipelines; Components thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/90 Arrangement of cameras or camera modules, e.g. multiple cameras in TV studios or sports stadiums

Abstract

A system for collecting data comprising a mobile terminal for capturing a plurality of frames of image data, the mobile terminal having a first imaging assembly and a second imaging assembly, the first imaging assembly for capturing a first frame of image data representing a first object and the second imaging assembly for capturing a second frame of image data representing a second object, wherein the system for use in collecting data is operative for associating first frame information and second frame information, the first frame information including one or more of image data of the first frame of image data and information derived utilizing the image data of the first frame of image data, the second frame information including one or more of image data of the second frame of image data and information derived utilizing the image data of the second frame of image data.

Claims

1. A method for implementation with use of a mobile terminal having a first imaging assembly and a second imaging assembly and a display;

responsively to actuation of an actuator capturing a first frame of image data and a second frame of image data, the first frame of image data representing a first object in a field of view of the first imaging assembly, the second frame of image data representing a second object in a field of view of the second imaging assembly, wherein the first object and the second object are disposed on opposite sides of a display plane extending through the display; and

associating first frame information and second frame information, the first frame information including one or more of image data of the first frame of image data and information derived utilizing image data of the first frame of image data, the second frame information including one or more of image data of the second frame of image data and information derived utilizing image data of the second frame of image data.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first object is a person and the second object is an article comprising a bar code.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first object is a person, wherein the second object is an article comprising a bar code, and wherein the second frame information includes a decoded message determined by processing the second frame.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the second object is an article comprising a bar code, and wherein the second frame information includes decoded message determined by processing the second frame.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first frame of image data includes a representation of a person, wherein the second object is an article comprising a bar code, and wherein the second frame information includes a decoded message determined by processing the second frame, and wherein the associating comprises providing a file having both image data of the first frame of image data and the decoded message.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the first frame of image data includes a representation of a person, wherein the second object is an article comprising a bar code, and wherein the second frame information includes a decoded message determined by processing the second frame, wherein the associating comprises providing an image file having both image data of the first frame of image data and an open data field location including the decoded message.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the first object is a health care provider and wherein the second object is an article for use in treating a patient.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the first object is a delivery personnel and wherein the second object is an article being delivered.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the first object is a delivery personnel, wherein the second object is an article being delivered having a barcode, wherein the second frame information includes a decoded message determined by processing the second frame of image data.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the first object is a person, wherein the second object is an article, wherein the first frame information includes a biometric identifier determined by processing the first frame of image data, wherein the second frame information includes data determined by processing the second frame of image data.