Inventor

Anatoly Kotlarsky

Inventor

Holland, PA, US

Overview

1999–2017

Patent span

Physics

Primary field (CPC G)

Patents· 122 as inventor

Public. Assignee & technology derived from the patent record. Each patent links to its LexDana page.

G06Kprimary

G06KGraphical data reading48%

G06VImage or video recognition or understanding11%

G06QInformation and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial or supervisory purposes10%

A47FSpecial furniture, fittings, or accessories for shops, storehouses, bars, restaurants or the like8%

G07GRegistering the receipt of cash, valuables, or tokens8%

G02BOptical elements, systems or apparatus8%

G06FElectric digital data processing6%

H04NPictorial communication, e.g. television0%

Y10STechnical subjects covered by former uspc cross-reference art collections [xracs] and digests0%

PatentTitleYear

9,785,811'Image capture and processing system supporting a multi-tier modular software architecture'2017 9,361,502'System for, and method of, controlling target illumination for an imaging reader'2016 9,355,288'Image capture and processing system supporting a multi-tier modular software architecture'2016 9,104,930'Code symbol reading system'2015 8,844,822'Image capture and processing system supporting a multi-tier modular software architecture'2014 8,517,271'Optical code symbol reading system employing a LED-driven optical-waveguide structure for illuminating a manually-actuated trigger switch integrated within a hand-supportable system housing'2013 8,479,992'Optical code symbol reading system employing an acoustic-waveguide structure for coupling sonic energy, produced from an electro-transducer, to sound wave ports formed in the system housing'2013 8,430,319'Imaging reader for electro-optically reading two-dimensional symbols with controller having limited internal memory'2013 8,366,005'Hand-supportable digital image capture and processing system supporting a multi-tier modular software architecture'2013 8,317,105'Optical scanning system having an extended programming mode and method of unlocking restricted extended classes of features and functionalities embodied therewithin'2012 8,172,141'Laser beam despeckling devices'2012 8,157,175'Digital image capture and processing system supporting a presentation mode of system operation which employs a combination of video and snapshot modes of image detection array operation during a single cycle of system operation'2012 8,157,174'Digital image capture and processing system employing an image formation and detection system having an area-type image detection array supporting single snap-shot and periodic snap-shot modes of image acquisition during object illumination and imaging operations'2012 8,132,731'Digital image capture and processing system having a printed circuit (PC) board with a light transmission aperture, wherein an image detection array is mounted on the rear side of said PC board, and a linear array of light emitting diodes (LEDS) is mounted on the front surface of said PC board, and aligned with an illumination-focusing lens structure integrated within said imaging window'2012 8,100,331'Digital image capture and processing system having a printed circuit (PC) board with light transmission aperture, wherein first and second field of view (FOV) folding mirrors project the FOV of a digital image detection array on the rear surface of said PC board, through said light transmission aperture'2012 8,087,588'Digital image capture and processing system having a single printed circuit (PC) board with a light transmission aperture, wherein a first linear array of visible light emitting diodes (LEDs) are mounted on the rear side of the PC board for producing a linear targeting illumination beam, and wherein a second linear array of visible LEDs are mounted on the front side of said PC board for producing a field of visible illumination within the field of view (FOV) of the system'2012 8,052,057'Method of programming the system configuration parameters of a digital image capture and processing system during the implementation of its communication interface with a host system without reading programming-type bar code symbols'2011 8,047,438'Digital image capture and processing system employing an image formation and detection subsystem having an area-type image detection array supporting periodic occurrance of snap-shot type image acquisition cycles at a high-repetition rate during object illumination'2011 8,042,740'Method of reading bar code symbols on objects at a point-of-sale station by passing said objects through a complex of stationary coplanar illumination and imaging planes projected into a 3D imaging volume'2011 8,011,585'Digital image capture and processing system employing a linear LED-based illumination array mounted behind an illumination-focusing lens component integrated within the imaging window of the system'2011 7,997,489'Countertop-based digital image capture and processing system having an illumination subsystem employing a single array of LEDs disposed behind an illumination focusing lens structure integrated within the imaging window, for generating a field of visible illumination highly confined below the field'2011 7,988,053'Digital image capture and processing system employing an image formation and detection subsystem having image formation optics providing a field of view (FOV) on an area-type image detection array, and a multi-mode illumination subsystem having near and far field LED-based illumination arrays for illuminating near and far field portions of said FOV'2011 7,980,471'Method of unlocking restricted extended classes of features and functionalities embodied within a digital image capture and processing system by reading feature/functionality-unlocking type code symbols'2011 7,967,209'Method of blocking a portion of illumination rays generated by a countertop-supported digital imaging system, and preventing illumination rays from striking the eyes of the system operator or nearby consumers during operation of said countertop-supported digital image capture and processing system installed at a retail point of sale (POS) station'2011 7,954,719'Tunnel-type digital imaging-based self-checkout system for use in retail point-of-sale environments'2011 7,950,583'Automatic digital video imaging based code symbol reading system employing an automatic object motion controlled illumination subsystem'2011 7,922,089'Hand-supportable digital image capture and processing system employing automatic object presence detection to control automatic generation of a linear targeting illumination beam within the field of view (FOV), and manual trigger switching to initiate illumination'2011 7,900,839'Hand-supportable digital image capture and processing system having a printed circuit board with a light transmission aperture, through which the field of view (FOV) of the image detection array and visible targeting illumination beam are projected using a FOV-folding mirror'2011 7,878,407'POS-based digital image capturing and processing system employing automatic object motion detection and spectral-mixing based illumination techniques'2011 7,861,936'digital image capturing and processing system allowing third-parties to extend the features and functions of said system, and modify the standard behavior thereof without permanently modifying the standard features and functions thereof'2011 7,854,384'Digital image capture and processing engine employing optical waveguide technology for collecting and guiding LED-based illumination during object illumination and image capture modes of operation'2010 7,845,563'Digital image capture and processing system employing an illumination subassembly mounted about a light transmission aperture, and a field of view folding mirror disposed beneath the light transmission aperture'2010 7,845,559'Hand-supportable digital image capture and processing system employing visible targeting illumination beam projected from an array of visible light sources on the rear surface of a printed circuit (PC) board having a light transmission aperture, and reflected off multiple folding mirrors and projected through the light transmission aperture into a central portion of the field of view of said system'2010 7,845,561'Digital image capture and processing system supporting a periodic snapshot mode of operation wherein during each image acquisition cycle, the rows of image detection elements in the image detection array are exposed simultaneously to illumination'2010 7,841,533'Method of capturing and processing digital images of an object within the field of view (FOV) of a hand-supportable digitial image capture and processing system'2010 7,815,121'Method of modifying and/or extending the standard features and functions of a digital image capture and processing system'2010 7,806,336'Laser beam generation system employing a laser diode and high-frequency modulation circuitry mounted on a flexible circuit'2010 7,806,335'Digital image capturing and processing system for automatically recognizing objects in a POS environment'2010 7,793,841'Laser illumination beam generation system employing despeckling of the laser beam using high-frequency modulation of the laser diode current and optical multiplexing of the component laser beams'2010 7,789,309'Automatic digital video-imaging based code symbol reading system employing illumination and imaging subsystems controlled within a control loop maintained as long as a code symbol has not been successfully read and the object is detected in the field of view of the system'2010 7,784,698'Digital image capturing and processing system for automatically recognizing graphical intelligence graphically represented in digital images of objects'2010 7,784,695'Planar laser illumination module (PLIM) employing high-frequency modulation (HFM) of the laser drive currents and optical multplexing of the output laser beams'2010 7,775,436'Method of driving a plurality of visible and invisible LEDs so as to produce an illumination beam having a dynamically managed ratio of visible to invisible (IR) spectral energy/power during object illumination and imaging operations'2010 7,770,796'Device for producing a laser beam of reduced coherency using high-frequency modulation of the laser diode current and optical multiplexing of the output laser beam'2010 7,770,798'Automatically-triggered digital video-imaging based code symbol reading system for use in a point-of-sale (POS) environment'2010 7,762,465'Device for optically multiplexing a laser beam'2010 7,735,737'Automatically-triggered digital video-imaging based code symbol reading system supporting ambient illumination mode automatically selected by adaptive control process'2010 7,731,091'Digital image capturing and processing system employing automatic object detection and spectral-mixing based illumination techniques'2010 7,712,666'Automatically-triggered digital video-imaging based code symbol reading system supporting dynamically controlled object illumination and digital video-imaging operations'2010 7,708,205'Digital image capture and processing system employing multi-layer software-based system architecture permitting modification and/or extension of system features and functions by way of third party code plug-ins'2010 7,681,799'Method of reading code symbols using a digital image capturing and processing system employing a micro-computing platform with an event-driven multi-tier software architecture'2010 7,665,665'Digital illumination and imaging subsystem employing despeckling mechanism employing high-frequency modulation of laser diode drive current and optical beam multiplexing techniques'2010 7,661,597'Coplanar laser illumination and imaging subsystem employing spectral-mixing and despeckling of laser illumination'2010 7,654,461'Automatically-triggered digital video imaging based code symbol reading system employing illumination and imaging subsystems controlled in response to real-time image quality analysis'2010 7,651,028'Intelligent system for automatically recognizing objects at a point of sale (POS) station by omni-directional imaging of the objects using a complex of coplanar illumination and imaging subsystems'2010 7,637,433'Digital image capture and processing system employing a micro-computing platform with an event-driven multi-tier modular software architecture and supporting an image-processing based illumination metering program for automatically adjusting illumination during object illumination and imaging operations'2009 7,637,432'Automatic point-of-sale based code symbol reading system employing automatic object motion detection and illumination control, and digital video image capturing and processing techniques'2009 7,624,926'Method of automatically reading code symbols on objects present within the field of view (FOV) of a hand-supportable digital-imaging based code symbol reader, by simultaneously projecting an image cropping zone (ICZ) framing pattern and a field of illumination within the FOV during object illumination and imaging operations'2009 7,614,560'Method of illuminating objects at a point of sale (POS) station by adaptively controlling the spectral composition of the wide-area illumination beam produced from an illumination subsystem within an automatic digital image capture and processing system'2009 7,611,064'Digital image capture and processing system having automatic illumination measurement and control capabilities realized using a photodetector operating independently of the image sensing array, and an image-processing based illumination metering program for automatically adjusting the illumination duration of the system during object illumination and imaging operations'2009 7,607,581'Digital imaging-based code symbol reading system permitting modification of system features and functionalities'2009 7,604,175'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'2009 7,594,609'Automatic digital video image capture and processing system supporting image-processing based code symbol reading during a pass-through mode of system operation at a retail point of sale (POS) station'2009 7,588,190'Digital-imaging code symbol reading system supporting automatic programming of system parameters for automatic configuration of said system in hands-on and hands-free modes of operation'2009 7,588,188'Pos-based digital image capturing and processing system using automatic object detection, spectral-mixing based illumination and linear imaging techniques'2009 7,575,167'Method of dynamically managing system control parameters in a digital image capture and processing system'2009 7,575,170'POS-based digital image capturing and processing system using automatic object detection, spectral-mixing based illumination and linear imaging techniques'2009 7,571,858'POS-based digital image capturing and processing system using automatic object detection, spectral-mixing based illumination and linear imaging techniques'2009 7,568,625'Hand-supportable digital image-processing based bar code symbol reading system employing image cropping zone (ICZ) framing and post-image capture cropping'2009 7,559,475'Automatic digital-imaging based bar code symbol reading system supporting a pass-through mode of system operation using automatic object direction detection and illumination control, and video image capture and processing techniques'2009 7,546,951'Digital image capture and processing system employing real-time analysis of image exposure quality and the reconfiguration of system control parameters based on the results of such exposure quality analysis'2009 7,546,952'Method of illuminating objects during digital image capture operations by mixing visible and invisible spectral illumination energy at point of sale (POS) environments'2009 7,543,752'Digital image capture and processing system employing a multi-mode illumination subsystem adaptable to ambient illumination levels'2009 7,543,749'Digital image capturing and processing system having a plurality of coplanar illumination and imaging subsystems, each employing a dual-type coplanar linear illumination and imaging engine that supports image-processing based object motion and velocity detection, and automatic image formation and detection along the coplanar illumination and imaging plane produced thereby'2009 7,540,425'Method of dynamically controlling illumination and image capturing operations in a digital image capture and processing system'2009 7,537,165'Omni-directional digital image capturing and processing system employing coplanar illumination and imaging planes and area-type illumination and imaging zones within the system housing'2009 7,530,497'Digital image capturing and processing system employing an image capturing and processing module and an integrated electronic weigh scale module having a load cell centrally located with respect to said image capturing and processing module'2009 7,527,206'Method of setting the time duration of illumination from an LED-based illumination array employed in a digital imaging-based code symbol reader, using an image-processing based illumination metering program executed therewithin'2009 7,520,433'Method for intelligently controlling the illumination and imagine of objects as they are moved through the 3D imaging volume of a digital image capturing and processing system'2009 7,516,898'Digital image capturing and processing system for producing and projecting a complex of coplanar illumination and imaging planes into a 3D imaging volume and controlling illumination control parameters in said system using the detected motion and velocity of object'2009 7,513,430'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'2009 7,510,122'Portable digital image capturing and processing system employing an area-type image sensing array exposed to illumination produced from an LED-based illumination array and measured using a photodector operated independently from said area-type image sensing array'2009 7,503,499'Digital image capturing and processing system producing narrow-band illumination when image sensor elements in a state of integration, and simultaneously detecting narrow-band illumination using an area-type image sensor and independently-operated photo-detector'2009 7,503,498'Hand-supportable digital image capturing and processing system employing an area-type image sensing array exposed to illumination from an LED-based illumination array only when all sensor elements in said image-sensing array are activated and in a state of integration'2009 7,494,063'Automatic imaging-based code symbol reading system supporting a multi-tier modular software architecture, automatic illumination control, and video image capture and processing techniques'2009 7,490,778'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'2009 7,490,774'Hand-supportable imaging based bar code symbol reader employing automatic light exposure measurement and illumination control subsystem integrated therein'2009 7,487,917'Automatic digital-imaging based code symbol reading system supporting pass-through and presentation modes of system operation using automatic object direction detection, narrow-area and wide-area illumination control, and narrow-area and wide-area video image capture and processing techniques'2009 7,484,666'Automatic digital-imaging based bar code symbol reading system supporting pass-through and presentation modes of system operation using automatic object direction detection and illumination control, and video image capture and processing techniques'2009 7,469,835'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'2008 7,464,877'Digital imaging-based bar code symbol reading system employing image cropping pattern generator and automatic cropped image processor'2008 7,428,998'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'2008 7,407,109'Digital-imaging based code symbol reading system employing a micro-computing platform supporting an event-driven multi-tier modular software architecture'2008 7,360,706'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'2008 7,357,325'Hand-supportable imaging-based bar code symbol reader employing a CMOS-type image sensor using global exposure techniques'2008 7,347,374'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'2008 7,325,738'Method of and system for determining the lower limit of decoding resolution in an imaging-based bar code symbol reader'2008 7,320,431'Digital imaging-based bar code symbol reading system employing a multi-mode illumination subsystem with far-field and near field led-based illumination arrays'2008 7,299,986'Digital imaging-based bar code symbol driven portable data terminal system'2007 7,293,714'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)'2007 7,284,705'Hand-supportable semi-automatic digital imaging-based bar code symbol reading system realized upon a multi-tier modular software platform'2007 7,281,661'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'2007 7,278,575'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'2007 7,273,180'Hand-supportable imaging-based bar code symbol reader having a multi-mode bar code symbol image processor dynamically reconfigurable in response to real-time image processing operations carried out on captured images'2007 7,270,272'Digital image-based bar code symbol reading system employing a multi-mode image-processing symbol reading subsystem'2007 7,267,282'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'2007 7,255,279'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'2007 7,243,847'Digital imaging-based bar code symbol reader employing an LED-based illumination subsystem driven by an automatic light exposure measurement and illumination control subsystem'2007 7,240,844'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'2007 7,237,722'Hand-supported imaging-based bar code symbol reader employing a multi-mode image-processing based bar code reading subsystem with modular image-processing architecture'2007 7,225,988'Hand-supportable imaging-based bar code symbol reader employing a tri-mode led-based illumination subsystem'2007 7,225,989'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'2007 7,216,810'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'2007 7,213,762'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'2007 7,188,770'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'2007 7,185,817'Hand-supportable digital imaging-based bar codes symbol reader employing multi-mode subsystems'2007 7,178,733'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'2007 7,128,266'Hand-supportable digital imaging-based bar code symbol reader supporting narrow-area and wide-area modes of illumination and image capture'2006 7,086,595'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'2006 6,330,521'Optical scanner alignment indicator method and apparatus'2001 6,205,406'Optical scanner alignment indicator method and apparatus'2001 5,895,463'Compression of grouped data'1999

Career & activity timeline

Assembled from patent assignee/location history and declaration credentials.

1999–2014Based in Holland, PA, US· patent location history

2006–2017Patents assigned to METROLOGIC INSTR INC (114)· patent assignee history

2009–2017Based in Churchville, PA, US· patent location history

2012–2013Patents assigned to KOTLARSKY ANATOLY (10)· patent assignee history

2012–2013Patents assigned to ZHU XIAOXUN (10)· patent assignee history

2012–2013Patents assigned to GIORDANO PATRICK (9)· patent assignee history

2012–2013Patents assigned to KNOWLES C HARRY (9)· patent assignee history

Inventor activity

Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.

Assignees

Assignee	Patents	Span
METROLOGIC INSTR INC	114	2006–2017
KOTLARSKY ANATOLYself	10	2012–2013
ZHU XIAOXUN	10	2012–2013
GIORDANO PATRICK	9	2012–2013
KNOWLES C HARRY	9	2012–2013

Locations

Location	Patents	Span
Holland, Pennsylvania, US	84	1999–2014
Churchville, Pennsylvania, US	38	2009–2017