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System and method for recognizing visual indicia

  • US 5,703,969 A
  • Filed: 02/16/1996
  • Issued: 12/30/1997
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/21/1994
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for identifying visual indicia on a surface comprising the steps of:

  • capturing a visual image of a scope-of-view window containing the visual indicia as a digital image;

    isolating the visual indicia on the digital image;

    converting the isolated visual indicia on the digital image to image primitives;

    said step of converting the isolated visual indicia on the digital image to image primitives comprising the steps of;

    determining an intensity trough value for the digital image;

    dividing the scope-of-view window into a predetermined number of token windows;

    determining the number of qualified pixels having an intensity value above said trough value in each token window; and

    comparing the number of qualified pixels in each token window to a predetermined threshold value and assigning a primitive value of "1" for each token window having more qualified pixels in the token window than a predetermined threshold value and assigning "0" for each token window having less qualified pixels than the predetermined threshold value; and

    comparing the image primitives to a plurality of sets of grammar primitives each corresponding to known visual indicia to find the known visual indicia that is most similar to the visual indicia of the visual image.

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