Decoding utilizing image data

• US 8,622,303 B2
• Filed: 09/12/2011
• Issued: 01/07/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/09/2003
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hand Held Products Incorporated (Honeywell International Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hand Held Products Incorporated (Honeywell International Inc.)
• Inventors: Gardiner, Robert C., Harper, Jeffrey Dean, Izzo, John, Koziol, Thomas J., Longacre, Andrew Jr., Pettinelli, John A., Meier, Timothy P
• Primary Examiner(s): LE, THIEN MINH
• Application Number:
  US13/230,516
• Publication Number:
  US 20120000981A1
• Time in Patent Office: 848 Days
• Field of Search: 2354621-46225, 23547201-47203
• US Class Current: 235/462.01
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10574 Multiple sources
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10881 constructional details of hand-held scanners
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/1098 the scanning arrangement having a modular construction
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/1439 including a method step for retrieval of the optical code

Abstract

The invention relates to decoding utilizing image data. The image data can be received from a source. A processor can process the image data for decoding. A processing for decoding can be responsive to determined information.

Claims

1. A computer readable medium storing instructions for performance of a method executable by processor for use in decoding information, the method comprising (a) recognizing a format of a received frame of image data, the received frame of image data being received from a source, wherein the recognizing includes determining an ID value for the source;

and (b) activating a certain decode algorithm for processing an image data frame received from the source, the processing being a processing for decoding a decodable indicia that can be represented in the image data frame, the activating being responsive to a result of the recognizing.

2. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the recognizing includes determining a parameter associated with the frame of image data.

3. The computer readable medium of claim 2, wherein the parameter is frame size.

5. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the image data frame is the frame of image data.

4. The computer readable medium of column 1, wherein the recognizing includes determining the source of the frame of image data and wherein the recognizing includes determining a parameter associated with the frame of image data.

6. A computer readable medium storing instructions for performance of a method executable by processor for use in decoding information, the method comprising (a) determining a source of a frame of image data, wherein the determining includes determining an ID value of the source;

and (b) activating a certain decode algorithm for processing an image data frame received from the source, the processing being a processing for decoding decodable indicia that can be represented in the image data frame, the activating being responsive to a result of the determining.

7. The computer readable medium of claim 6, wherein the determining includes polling the source.

8. The computer readable medium of claim 6, wherein the activating includes loading the certain decoding algorithm into memory.

9. The computer readable medium of claim 6, wherein the image data frame is the frame of image data.

10. The computer readable medium of claim 6, wherein the activating includes loading the certain decoding algorithm into memory.

11. A method for use in decoding information, the method including:

(a) determining utilizing a processor source of a frame of image data, wherein the determining includes determining an ID value of the source; and

(b) activating a certain decode algorithm for processing utilizing the processor an image data frame received from the source, the processing being a processing for decoding a decodable indicia that can be represented in the image data frame, the activating being responsive to a result of the determining.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the processor is provided by a microprocessor based decoder module.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the source is an imaging module.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the image data frame is the frame of image data.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the activating includes loading the certain decoding algorithm into memory.