ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,637, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to DATALOGIC IP TECH S.R.L. (Bologna, Italy).
"System and method for symbol detection" was invented by Stefano Santi (Eugene, Ore.) and Thomas Prihoda (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical symbol detector has an input operative to receive a captured image frame. The detector includes a feature extractor engine coupled to the input to produce a downscaled descriptor map based on the captured image frame, the descriptor map including a convolutional map of blocks of the captured image frame. The detector further includes a coarse estimator engine coupled to an output of the featu...