Optical information reading apparatus
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1. An optical information reading apparatus comprising:
- a light source for emitting light onto an object bearing optical information;
an optical system for collecting said light reflected by said object so as to form an information image indicative of said optical information at a predetermined reading position;
two-dimensional image pickup means having a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arranged in a plane, said two-dimensional image pickup means being provided at said predetermined reading position for capturing said information image;
storing means for storing said information image captured by said two-dimensional image pickup means;
two-dimensional information decoding means for recognizing two-dimensional information in said information image stored by said storing means;
region detecting means for detecting a region of each bar and a region of each space of a bar code in said information image stored by said storing means, said bars and said spaces being alternately arranged to form said bar code; and
bar code decoding means for decoding said bar code based on a relationship between areas of said regions of said bars and areas of said regions of said spaces detected by said region detecting means.
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Abstract
An optical information reading apparatus includes a two-dimensional image pickup apparatus having a number of photoelectric conversion elements arranged in a plane for capturing an image of optical information on a read object. The optical information reading apparatus detects a bar code contained in the captured information image and derives an area of each of bars and spaces of the bar code in the captured information image. The optical information reading apparatus recognizes and decodes the bar code using a ratio of the derived areas of the bars and the spaces of the bar code.
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1. An optical information reading apparatus comprising:
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a light source for emitting light onto an object bearing optical information; an optical system for collecting said light reflected by said object so as to form an information image indicative of said optical information at a predetermined reading position; two-dimensional image pickup means having a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arranged in a plane, said two-dimensional image pickup means being provided at said predetermined reading position for capturing said information image; storing means for storing said information image captured by said two-dimensional image pickup means; two-dimensional information decoding means for recognizing two-dimensional information in said information image stored by said storing means; region detecting means for detecting a region of each bar and a region of each space of a bar code in said information image stored by said storing means, said bars and said spaces being alternately arranged to form said bar code; and bar code decoding means for decoding said bar code based on a relationship between areas of said regions of said bars and areas of said regions of said spaces detected by said region detecting means. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 25, 27)
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13. An optical information reading apparatus comprising:
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a light source for emitting light onto an object bearing optical information; an optical system for collecting said light reflected by said read object so as to form an information image indicative of said optical information at a predetermined reading position; two-dimensional image pickup means having a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arranged in a plane, said two-dimensional image pickup means being provided at said predetermined reading position for capturing said information image; storing means for storing said information image captured by said two-dimensional image pickup means; two-dimensional information decoding means for recognizing two-dimensional information in said information image stored by said storing means; area deriving means for detecting a bar code contained in said information image stored by said storing means, said bar code having a bar and a space, and for determining an area of each bar and each space of said bar code included in said information image stored by said storing means; and bar code decoding means for decoding said bar code based on a relationship between areas of said bars and areas of said spaces detected by said area deriving means. - View Dependent Claims (26)
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14. An optical information reading apparatus comprising:
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a light source for emitting light onto an object bearing optical information; an optical system for collecting said light reflected by said object so as to form an image indicative of said optical information at a predetermined reading position; two-dimensional image pickup means having a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arranged in a same plane, said two-dimensional image pickup means provided at said predetermined reading position for capturing said image indicative of said optical information; storing means for storing said image captured by said two-dimensional image pickup means; two-dimensional information decoding means for recognizing two-dimensional information in said image stored by said storing means; and area detecting means for detecting a two-dimensional area of each bar and a two-dimensional area of each space in said bar code information included in said image stored by said storing means, and bar code decoding means for decoding said bar code information based on a relationship between said two-dimensional areas of said bars and said two-dimensional areas of said spaces detected by said area detecting means. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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