Patent №
US 8,201,742
Granted
2012-06-19
Filed 2010
Owner
KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
Lab
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AI components
1
vision
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
12719269
According to one embodiment, a barcode processing apparatus comprises a reading unit configured to read an image of a barcode configured by a plurality of bars laid out at a predetermined interval, each bar being formed by a plurality of ink dots, and a barcode recognition unit configured to filter the read image using a mask which has a width smaller than the predetermined interval and larger than a width of one bar, and corresponds to a length of one bar so as to extract a group of a plurality of ink dots, to couple the plurality of ink dots in the extracted group, to detect one bar based on the coupling result, and to recognize a barcode configured by a plurality of detected bars.
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Ownership
KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
assignment · 240430567
Assignors
MAEDA, MASAYA, IRIE, BUNPEI, NATORI, NAOTAKE, HAMAMURA, TOMOYUKI
On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.