US Patent Issued to OMRON on June 24 for "Symbology or frame rate changes based on target distance" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,112, issued on June 24, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Symbology or frame rate changes based on target distance" was invented by Mitch Modin (Renton, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a distance sensor, an image sensor, one or more processors, and memory coupled to the one or more processors. The apparatus determines, via the distance sensor, a distance between an object and the apparatus. In accordance with a determination that the distance between the object and the apparatus is within a first distance range of a plurality of predefined distance ranges, the apparatus identifies a subset of sym...