US Patent Issued to KEYENCE on July 29 for "Mobile code reading device and code reading method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,657, issued on July 29, was assigned to KEYENCE Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Mobile code reading device and code reading method" was invented by Shusuke Oki (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Achieved are both high speed in decoding a simple code and stability of decoding of a difficult code. A code image, generated by high-speed imaging control (first imaging control) for causing an imaging unit to generate the code image while causing an illumination unit to execute one type (N1=1) of illumination mode (a polarized illumination mode) among four types of illumination, is decoded by a core (high-speed decoding). On the other hand...