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Inventor

Michael D. Schnee

Inventor
Aston, PA, US

Overview

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Patents
2003–2015
Patent span
Physics
Primary field (CPC G)

Patents· 90 as inventor

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G06Kprimary
G06KGraphical data reading33%
G02BOptical elements, systems or apparatus17%
H01SDevices using the process of light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation [laser] to amplify or generate light15%
B82YSpecific uses or applications of nanostructures10%
G06VImage or video recognition or understanding8%
G06QInformation and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial or supervisory purposes7%
G07GRegistering the receipt of cash, valuables, or tokens2%
H10DInorganic electric semiconductor devices2%
G06FElectric digital data processing2%
G01SRadio direction-finding1%
PatentTitleYear
9,030,964'Wireless network device'20158,457,013'Wireless dual-function network device dynamically switching and reconfiguring from a wireless network router state of operation into a wireless network coordinator state of operation in a wireless communication network'20138,234,507'Electronic-ink display device employing a power switching mechanism automatically responsive to predefined states of device configuration'20127,832,643'Hand-supported planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) based systems with laser despeckling mechanisms integrated therein'20107,743,990'Imaging engine employing planar light illumination and linear imaging'20107,673,803'Planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) based engine'20107,668,406'Digital image acquisition system capable of compensating for changes in relative object velocity'20107,644,866'Hand-supportable code symbol reader employing coplanar laser illumination and linear imaging'20107,621,455'Hand-supportable code symbol reader employing coplanar laser illumination and linear imaging'20097,604,175'Method of reading bar code symbols using a digital-imaging based code symbol reading system employing an event-driven multi-tier modular software architecture and supporting automatic operating system login and loading of bar code symbol reading application'20097,600,689'Tunnel-based object identification and dimensioning system'20097,584,893'Tunnel-type digital imaging system for use within retail shopping environments such as supermarkets'20097,581,681'Tunnel-type digital imaging system for use within retail shopping environments such as supermarkets'20097,568,625'Hand-supportable digital image-processing based bar code symbol reading system employing image cropping zone (ICZ) framing and post-image capture cropping'20097,533,821'Hand-supportable planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) device for producing a planar laser illumination beam (PLIB) coplanar with the field of view (FOV) of a linear image detection array'20097,527,205'Automated package dimensioning system'20097,527,202'Hand-supportable planar linear illumination and imaging (PLIIM) based code symbol reading system'20097,527,200'Planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) systems with integrated despeckling mechanisms provided therein'20097,523,863'Hand-supportable LED-based planar illumination and imaging system'20097,513,430'Digital image capturing and processing system employing an area-type image sensing array exposed to narrow-band illumination from a narrow-band illumination subsystem for a time duration controlled using a photodetector operated independently from said area-type image sensing array'20097,490,774'Hand-supportable imaging based bar code symbol reader employing automatic light exposure measurement and illumination control subsystem integrated therein'20097,490,778'Method of reading code symbols using a hand-supportable digital image capturing and processing device employing a micro-computing platform supporting an event-driven multi-tier modular software architecture'20097,472,831'System for detecting image light intensity reflected off an object in a digital imaging-based bar code symbol reading device'20097,469,835'Digital-imaging based code symbol reading system employing an event-driven multi-tier modular software architecture and supporting automatic operating system login and loading of code symbol reading application'20087,428,998'Automatic hand-supportable image-based bar code symbol reader having image-processing based bar code reading subsystem employing simple decode image processing operations applied in an outwardly-directed manner referenced from the center of a captured narrow-area digital image of an object bearing a 1D bar code symbol'20087,395,971'Method of and system for profile equalization employing visible laser diode (VLD) displacement'20087,360,706'Hand-supportable imaging-based auto-discriminating 1D/2D bar code symbol reader employing a multi-mode image processing bar code symbol reading subsystem having a plurality of modes of operation which are dynamically reconfigurable in response to real-time image analysis'20087,357,325'Hand-supportable imaging-based bar code symbol reader employing a CMOS-type image sensor using global exposure techniques'20087,347,374'Hand-supportable digital imaging-based bar code symbol reader employing an event-driven system control subsystem, automatic IR-based object detection, and trigger-switch activated image capture and processing subsystem'20087,344,082'Automated method of and system for dimensioning objects over a conveyor belt structure by applying contouring tracing, vertice detection, corner point detection, and corner point reduction methods to two-dimensional range data maps of the space above the conveyor belt captured by an amplitude modulated laser scanning beam'20087,325,738'Method of and system for determining the lower limit of decoding resolution in an imaging-based bar code symbol reader'20087,320,431'Digital imaging-based bar code symbol reading system employing a multi-mode illumination subsystem with far-field and near field led-based illumination arrays'20087,299,986'Digital imaging-based bar code symbol driven portable data terminal system'20077,293,714'Hand-supportable digital imaging-based bar code symbol reading system automatically processing captured images along parallel virtual scan lines based on the maximum pixel height of the region of interest (ROI)'20077,284,705'Hand-supportable semi-automatic digital imaging-based bar code symbol reading system realized upon a multi-tier modular software platform'20077,281,661'Hand-supportable digital imaging-based bar code symbol reading system employing a method of intelligently illuminating an object so as to generate a digital image thereof which is substantially free of noise caused by specular-type reflection'20077,278,575'Hand-supportable image-based bar code symbol reader employing helically-sweeping feature-extraction analysis on a captured digital image of an object referenced from the center thereof'20077,270,272'Digital image-based bar code symbol reading system employing a multi-mode image-processing symbol reading subsystem'20077,267,282'Hand-supportable imaging-based bar code symbol reader capable of exposing an automatically detected object to a field of narrow-band LED-based illumination only when substantially all rows of pixels in a CMOS image sensing array are in a state of integration'20077,255,279'Hand-supportable digital imaging-based bar code reading system wherein, during each imaging cycle, a single frame of pixel data is automatically detected by a CMOS area-type image sensing array when substantially all rows of pixels therein are in a state of integration and have a common integration time, and then pixel data is transmitted from said CMOS area-type image sensing array into a FIFO buffer, and then mapped into memory for subsequent image processing'20077,243,847'Digital imaging-based bar code symbol reader employing an LED-based illumination subsystem driven by an automatic light exposure measurement and illumination control subsystem'20077,240,844'Hand-suportable imaging-based bar code symbol reader employing an automatic light exposure measurement and illumination control subsystem for measuring illumination exposure on CMOS image sensing array and controlling LED illumination array driver circuitry'20077,237,722'Hand-supported imaging-based bar code symbol reader employing a multi-mode image-processing based bar code reading subsystem with modular image-processing architecture'20077,225,989'Method of performing auto-discrimination of 1D/2D bar code symbologies in a semi-automatic hand-supportable imaging-based bar code symbol reader having narrow-area and wide-area image capture modes of operation'20077,225,988'Hand-supportable imaging-based bar code symbol reader employing a tri-mode led-based illumination subsystem'20077,216,810'Hand-supportable multi-mode digital imaging-based bar code symbol reader employing an automatic illumination and exposure control subsystem that automatically controls the operation of a multi-mode led-based illumination subsystem so that detected objects are sufficiently illuminated and good quality digital images thereof are formed and detected'20077,213,762'Hand-supportable imaging-based bar code symbol reader employing a CMOS-type image sensing array in combination with a band-pass optical filter subsystem, narrow-band illumination subsystem, and automatic light exposure measurement and illumination control subsystem'20077,188,770'Hand-supportable semi-automatic imaging-based bar code reading system wherein an led-based illumination subsystem automatically illuminates a detected target object in a narrow-area field of illumination, and illuminates the detected target object in a wide-area field of illumination upon manual activation of a trigger switch'20077,185,817'Hand-supportable digital imaging-based bar codes symbol reader employing multi-mode subsystems'20077,178,733'Hand-supportable imaging-based bar code symbol reader employing automatic object presence and range detection to control the generation of near-field and far-field wide-area illumination during bar code symbol imaging operations'20077,164,810'Planar light illumination and linear imaging (PLILIM) device with image-based velocity detection and aspect ratio compensation'20077,143,943'Method of producing digital images of objects using planar laser illumination beams and electronic image detection arrays'20067,131,586'Method of and apparatus for reducing speckle-pattern noise in a planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) based system'20067,128,266'Hand-supportable digital imaging-based bar code symbol reader supporting narrow-area and wide-area modes of illumination and image capture'20067,104,453'Unitary package identification and dimensioning system employing ladar-based scanning methods'20067,104,455'Planar light illumination and imaging (PLIIM) system employing LED-based planar light illumination arrays (PLIAS) and an area-type image detection array'20067,086,594'Planar light illumination and imaging (PLIIM) systems employing LED-based planar light illumination arrays (PLIAS) and linear electronic image detection arrays'20067,086,595'METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING CAPTURED DIGITAL IMAGES OF OBJECTS WITHIN A SEMI-AUTOMATIC HAND-SUPPORTABLE IMAGING-BASED BAR CODE SYMBOL READER SO AS TO READ 1D AND/OR 2D BAR CODE SYMBOLS GRAPHICALLY REPRESENTED THEREIN'20067,077,319'Imaging engine employing planar light illumination and linear imaging'20067,073,718'Planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) systems employing laser-diode based planar laser illumination arrays and linear electronic image detection arrays'20067,070,106'Internet-based remote monitoring, configuration and service (RMCS) system capable of monitoring, configuring and servicing a planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) based network'20067,070,107'Led-based planar light illumination and imaging (PLIIM) systems'20067,066,391'HAND-SUPPORTABLE PLANAR LASER ILLUMINATION AND IMAGING (PLIIM) BASED CAMERA SYSTEM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIGITAL LINEAR IMAGES OF AN OBJECT, CONTAINING PIXELS HAVING A SUBSTANTIALLY UNIFORM ASPECT-RATIO INDEPENDENT OF THE MEASURED RELATIVE VELOCITY OF AN OBJECT WHILE MANUALLY MOVING SAID PLIIM BASED CAMERA SYSTEM PAST SAID OBJECT DURING ILLUMINATION AND IMAGING OPERATIONS'20067,028,899'METHOD OF SPECKLE-NOISE PATTERN REDUCTION AND APPARATUS THEREFORE BASED ON REDUCING THE TEMPORAL-COHERENCE OF THE PLANAR LASER ILLUMINATION BEAM BEFORE IT ILLUMINATES THE TARGET OBJECT BY APPLYING TEMPORAL PHASE MODULATION TECHNIQUES DURING THE TRANSMISSION OF THE PLIB TOWARDS THE TARGET'20066,991,166'LED-based planar light illumination and imaging (PLIIM) engine'20066,988,661'AUTOMATED OBJECT IDENTIFICATION AND ATTRIBUTE ACQUISITION SYSTEM HAVING A MULTI-COMPARTMENT HOUSING WITH OPTICALLY-ISOLATED LIGHT TRANSMISSION APERTURES FOR OPERATION OF A PLANAR LASER ILLUMINATION AND IMAGING (PLIIM) BASED LINEAR IMAGING SUBSYSTEM AND A LASER-BASE'20066,978,935'PLANAR LIGHT ILLUMINATION AND IMAGING (PLIIM) BASED SYSTEM HAVING A LINEAR IMAGE DETECTION CHIP MOUNTING ASSEMBLY WITH MEANS FOR PREVENTING MISALIGNMENT BETWEEN THE FIELD OF VIEW (FOV) OF SAID LINEAR IMAGE DETECTION CHIP AND THE CO-PLANAR LASER ILLUMINATION BEAM (PLIB) PRODUCED BY SAID PLIIM BASED SYSTEM, IN RESPONSE TO THERMAL EXPANSION AND/OR CONTRACTION WITHIN SAID PLIIM BASED SYSTEM'20056,978,936'Method of and system for automatically producing digital images of moving objects, with pixels having a substantially uniform white level independent of the velocities of the moving objects'20056,971,577'Method of and system for automatically producing digital images of a moving object, with pixels having a substantially uniform white level independent of the velocity of said moving object'20056,971,580'AUTOMATED METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR DIMENSIONING OBJECTS OVER A CONVEYOR BELT STRUCTURE BY APPLYING CONTOURING TRACING, VERTICE DETECTION, CORNER POINT DETECTION, AND CORNER POINT REDUCTION METHODS TO TWO-DIMENSIONAL RANGE DATA MAPS OF THE SPACE ABOVE THE CONVEYOR BELT CAPTURED BY AN AMPLITUDE MODULATED LASER SCANNING BEAM'20056,971,575'HAND-SUPPORTABLE PLANAR LASER ILLUMINATION AND IMAGING (PLIIM) DEVICE EMPLOYING A PAIR OF LINEAR LASER DIODE ARRAYS MOUNTED ABOUT AN AREA IMAGE DETECTION ARRAY, FOR ILLUMINATING AN OBJECT TO BE IMAGED WITH A PLURALITY OF OPTICALLY-COMBINED SPATIALLY-INCOHERENT PLANAR LASER ILLUMINATION BEAMS (PLIBS) SCANNED THROUGH THE FIELD OF VIEW (FOV) OF SAID AREA IMAGE DETECTION ARRAY, AND REDUCING THE SPECKLE-PATTERN NOISE POWER IN DETECTED 2-D IMAGES BY TEMPORALLY-AVERAGING DETECTED SPECKLE-NOISE PATTERNS'20056,959,869'Automatic vehicle identification (AVI) system employing planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) based subsystems'20056,953,152'HAND-SUPPORTABLE PLANAR LASER ILLUMINATION AND IMAGING (PLIIM) BASED CAMERA SYSTEM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIGITAL LINEAR IMAGES OF A OBJECT, CONTAINING PIXELS HAVING A SUBSTANTIALLY UNIFORM WHITE LEVEL INDEPENDENT OF THE VELOCITY OF THE OBJECT WHILE MANUALLY MOVING SAID FILM BASED CAMERA SYSTEM PAST SAID OBJECT DURING ILLUMINATION IMAGING OPERATIONS'20056,953,151'PLANAR LASER ILLUMINATION AND IMAGING (PLIIM) BASED CAMERA SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY PRODUCING DIGITAL LINEAR IMAGES OF A MOVING OBJECT, CONTAINING PIXELS HAVING A SUBSTANTIALLY SQUARE ASPECT-RATIO INDEPENDENT OF THE MEASURED RANGE AND/OR A VELOCITY OF SAID MOVING OBJECT'20056,948,659'Hand-supportable planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) device'20056,913,202'Planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) engine'20056,896,184'PLANAR LASER ILLUMINATION AND IMAGING (PLIIM) SYSTEM EMPLOYING LASER-DIODE BASED PLANAR LASER ILLUMINATION ARRAYS AND A LINEAR ELECTRONIC IMAGE DETECTION ARRAY EMPLOYING IMAGE FORMATION OPTICS THAT OPTICALLY COMPENSATES FOR DECREASES IN THE POWER-DENSITY OF THE PLANAR LASER ILLUMINATION BEAM WITH INCREASES IN OBJECT DISTANCE DURING ILLUMINATION AND IMAGING OPERATIONS'20056,877,662'Led-based planar light illumination and imaging (PLIIM) based camera system employing real-time object coordinate acquisition and producing to control automatic zoom and focus imaging optics'20056,837,437'Planar laser illumination modules (PLIMS) employed in a planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) system'20056,830,184'METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY COMPENSATING FOR VIEWING-ANGLE DISTORTION IN DIGITAL LINEAR IMAGES OF OBJECT SURFACES MOVING PAST A PLANAR LASER ILLUMINATION AND IMAGING (PLIIM) BASED CAMERA SYSTEM AT SKEWED VIEWING ANGLES'20046,830,185'Method of and system for automatically producing digital images of a moving object, with pixels having a substantially uniform white level independent of the velocity of said moving object'20046,830,189'METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING DIGITAL IMAGES OF OBJECTS WITH SUBTANTIALLY REDUCED SPECKLE-NOISE PATTERNS BY ILLUMINATING SAID OBJECTS WITH SPATIALLY AND/OR TEMPORALLY COHERENT-REDUCED PLANAR LASER ILLUMINATION'20046,827,265'Automatic vehicle identification and classification (AVIC) system employing a tunnel-arrangement of PLIIM-based subsystems'20046,786,414'Planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) systems'20046,764,008'Planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) system employing an area-type image detection array'20046,742,707'METHOD OF SPECKLE-NOISE PATTERN REDUCTION AND APPARATUS THEREFOR BASED ON REDUCING THE SPATIAL-COHERENCE OF THE PLANAR LASER ILLUMINATION BEAM BEFORE THE BEAM ILLUMINATES THE TARGET OBJECT BY APPLYING SPATIAL PHASE SHIFTING TECHNIQUES DURING THE TRANSMISSION OF THE PLIB THERETOWARDS'20046,742,711'Method of extending the working distance of a planar laser illumination and imaging system without increasing the output power of the visible laser diode (VLD) sources employed there'20046,705,526'AUTOMATED METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR DIMENSIONING OBJECTS TRANSPORTED THROUGH A WORK ENVIRONMENT USING CONTOUR TRACING, VERTICE DETECTION, CORNER POINT DETECTION, AND CORNER POINT REDUCTION METHODS ON TWO-DIMENSIONAL RANGE DATA MAPS CAPTURED BY AN AMPLITUDE MODULATED LASER SCANNING BEAM'20046,631,842'Method of and system for producing images of objects using planar laser illumination beams and image detection arrays'20036,629,641'Method of and system for producing images of objects using planar laser illumination beams and image detection arrays'2003

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2003–2015Patents assigned to METROLOGIC INSTR INC (88)· patent assignee history
2003–2015Based in Aston, PA, US· patent location history
2005–2009Patents assigned to METPOLOGIC INSTR INC (2)· patent assignee history
2012–2013Patents assigned to ESSINGER STEVEN (2)· patent assignee history
2012–2013Patents assigned to SCHNEE MICHAEL (2)· patent assignee history
2012–2013Patents assigned to ZHU XIAOXUN (2)· patent assignee history

Inventor activity

Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.

Assignees
AssigneePatentsSpan
METROLOGIC INSTR INC882003–2015
ESSINGER STEVEN22012–2013
METPOLOGIC INSTR INC22005–2009
SCHNEE MICHAELself22012–2013
ZHU XIAOXUN22012–2013
Locations
LocationPatentsSpan
Aston, Pennsylvania, US902003–2015