US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Jan. 13 for "System and method for determining when to zoom onto barcode or other optical code using imaging sensor of mobile device" (California, Missouri, Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,524, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"System and method for determining when to zoom onto barcode or other optical code using imaging sensor of mobile device" was invented by Zhicheng Tang (Columbia, Mo.), Haichao Zhang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ji Liang (Salt Lake City), Sia Jeffry Saputra (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Rathinamoorthy Mylsamy (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining a first image frame captured using at least one imaging sensor. The method also includes determining that an optical code is contained within the first image frame and det...