ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,096, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).
"Image-based barcode detection" was invented by Dongqing Chen (East Setauket, N.Y.), Kui Liu (Irvine, Calif.), Neeharika Nelaturu (Holtsville, N.Y.) and David S. Koch (East Islip, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: capturing an image; partitioning the image into sub-images; for each sub-image: providing the sub-image to a detection model, receiving, from the detection model, one or more sub-image regions of interest (SROIs), each SROI defined by (i) a position of the SROI, and (ii) one of a set of symbology categories, each symb...