US Patent Issued to ABBYY Development on Sept. 9 for "Decoding of two-dimensional barcodes under unfavorable conditions" (Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,056, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to ABBYY Development Inc. (Dover, Del.).

"Decoding of two-dimensional barcodes under unfavorable conditions" was invented by Ivan Zagaynov (Dolgoprudniy, Russia), Dmitry Zvonarev (Sarapul, Russia) and Aleksandr Riashchikov (Samara, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects and implementations provide for mechanisms of detection and decoding of barcodes in images. The disclosed techniques include estimating dimensions of a module of a barcode based on geometric characteristics of a barcode image, forming hypotheses that group modules into barcode symbols, and assessing viability of formed hypo...