ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,917, issued on March 4, was assigned to SICK AG (Waldkirch, Germany).
"Reading an optical code" was invented by Hannes Ruf (Waldkirch, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera based code reader for reading an optical code on an object in a relative movement to the code reader has a linear image sensor to record a respective image line and a control and evaluation unit having at least one first pre-processing unit and a further processing unit. The first pre-processing unit is connected to the image sensor and is configured to read image line by image line in the course of the relative movement, to rescale a respective image li...