WO1999050782A3 - Handheld scanning apparatus and method - Google Patents

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WO1999050782A3
WO1999050782A3 PCT/US1999/005805 US9905805W WO9950782A3 WO 1999050782 A3 WO1999050782 A3 WO 1999050782A3 US 9905805 W US9905805 W US 9905805W WO 9950782 A3 WO9950782 A3 WO 9950782A3
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handheld scanning
scanning apparatus
text
scanned
graphics
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PCT/US1999/005805
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Talia Itzhaki
Agnes Itzhaki
Ralph M Weisner
Cliff Elion
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Talia Itzhaki
Agnes Itzhaki
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Priority to AU30952/99A priority Critical patent/AU3095299A/en
Publication of WO1999050782A2 publication Critical patent/WO1999050782A2/en
Publication of WO1999050782A3 publication Critical patent/WO1999050782A3/en

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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06K—GRAPHICAL DATA READING; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
    • G06K7/00—Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers, e.g. for reading patterns
    • G06K7/10—Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers, e.g. for reading patterns by electromagnetic radiation, e.g. optical sensing; by corpuscular radiation
    • G06K7/10544—Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers, e.g. for reading patterns by electromagnetic radiation, e.g. optical sensing; by corpuscular radiation by scanning of the records by radiation in the optical part of the electromagnetic spectrum
    • G06K7/10821—Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers, e.g. for reading patterns by electromagnetic radiation, e.g. optical sensing; by corpuscular radiation by scanning of the records by radiation in the optical part of the electromagnetic spectrum further details of bar or optical code scanning devices
    • G06K7/10881—Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers, e.g. for reading patterns by electromagnetic radiation, e.g. optical sensing; by corpuscular radiation by scanning of the records by radiation in the optical part of the electromagnetic spectrum further details of bar or optical code scanning devices constructional details of hand-held scanners
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06K—GRAPHICAL DATA READING; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
    • G06K7/00—Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers, e.g. for reading patterns
    • G06K7/10—Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers, e.g. for reading patterns by electromagnetic radiation, e.g. optical sensing; by corpuscular radiation
    • G06K7/10544—Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers, e.g. for reading patterns by electromagnetic radiation, e.g. optical sensing; by corpuscular radiation by scanning of the records by radiation in the optical part of the electromagnetic spectrum
    • G06K7/10712—Fixed beam scanning
    • G06K7/10722—Photodetector array or CCD scanning
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06K—GRAPHICAL DATA READING; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
    • G06K7/00—Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers, e.g. for reading patterns
    • G06K7/10—Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers, e.g. for reading patterns by electromagnetic radiation, e.g. optical sensing; by corpuscular radiation
    • G06K7/10544—Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers, e.g. for reading patterns by electromagnetic radiation, e.g. optical sensing; by corpuscular radiation by scanning of the records by radiation in the optical part of the electromagnetic spectrum
    • G06K7/10712—Fixed beam scanning
    • G06K7/10762—Relative movement
    • G06K7/10772—Moved readers, e.g. pen, wand
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06K—GRAPHICAL DATA READING; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
    • G06K2207/00—Other aspects
    • G06K2207/1011—Aiming

Abstract

An improved handheld scanning apparatus (130) for recording and storing undistorted, high resolution images, a mechanical alignment and guiding system, and an optical system that projects a visible light beam (145) onto a substrate (115) to align and guide a handheld scanning apparatus over data to be scanned are disclosed. The handheld scanning apparatus is ergonomically designed to comfortably fit into a human hand and allows a user to operate the handheld scanning apparatus in a manner similar to a 'highlighter' marker. Thus, the user can move the visible light beam across a single or multiple lines of text (or graphics) to electronically retrieve and store the data in bitmapped format in an internal non-volatile memory. A LCD display is integrated into the handheld scanning device to display a variety of information including scanned bitmapped text and graphics in real-time. The scanned bitmap data may be transferred to a remove device (e.g., a personal computer) via a serial or infrared communication link (150) for subsequent processing, such as conversion to text using appropriate optical character recognition software.
PCT/US1999/005805 1998-03-27 1999-03-18 Handheld scanning apparatus and method WO1999050782A2 (en)

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AU30952/99A AU3095299A (en) 1998-03-27 1999-03-18 Handheld scanning apparatus and method

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US7964598P 1998-03-27 1998-03-27
US60/079,645 1998-03-27
US10097498P 1998-09-18 1998-09-18
US60/100,974 1998-09-18
US23833299A 1999-01-27 1999-01-27
US09/238,332 1999-01-27

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US5574804A (en) * 1990-12-21 1996-11-12 Olschafskie; Francis Hand-held scanner
US5587577A (en) * 1989-06-08 1996-12-24 Norand Corporation Modular scanner with hand-held data terminal
WO1997001827A1 (en) * 1995-06-27 1997-01-16 Wizcom Technologies Ltd. Hand-held scanner with rotary position detector
US5633678A (en) * 1995-12-20 1997-05-27 Eastman Kodak Company Electronic still camera for capturing and categorizing images
US5654533A (en) * 1992-10-26 1997-08-05 Kabushiki Kaisha Tec Apparatus and method for reading two-dimensional symbols
WO1997028512A1 (en) * 1996-01-31 1997-08-07 Psc Inc. Multiple aperture data reader for multi-mode operation

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US5587577A (en) * 1989-06-08 1996-12-24 Norand Corporation Modular scanner with hand-held data terminal
WO1991016688A1 (en) * 1990-04-26 1991-10-31 Brackmann Rogers F Hand-held optical scanner/highlighter
US5574804A (en) * 1990-12-21 1996-11-12 Olschafskie; Francis Hand-held scanner
US5654533A (en) * 1992-10-26 1997-08-05 Kabushiki Kaisha Tec Apparatus and method for reading two-dimensional symbols
WO1997001827A1 (en) * 1995-06-27 1997-01-16 Wizcom Technologies Ltd. Hand-held scanner with rotary position detector
US5633678A (en) * 1995-12-20 1997-05-27 Eastman Kodak Company Electronic still camera for capturing and categorizing images
WO1997028512A1 (en) * 1996-01-31 1997-08-07 Psc Inc. Multiple aperture data reader for multi-mode operation

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