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Title: Integrated display scanner

Abstract

A display scanner includes an optical panel having a plurality of stacked optical waveguides. The waveguides define an inlet face at one end and a screen at an opposite end, with each waveguide having a core laminated between cladding. A projector projects a scan beam of light into the panel inlet face for transmission from the screen as a scan line to scan a barcode. A light sensor at the inlet face detects a return beam reflected from the barcode into the screen. A decoder decodes the return beam detected by the sensor for reading the barcode. In an exemplary embodiment, the optical panel also displays a visual image thereon.

Inventors:
Issue Date:
Research Org.:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1175175
Patent Number(s):
6832727
Application Number:
09/302,941
Assignee:
Brookhaven Science Associates (Upton, NY)
Patent Classifications (CPCs):
G - PHYSICS G06 - COMPUTING G06K - RECOGNITION OF DATA
G - PHYSICS G07 - CHECKING-DEVICES G07G - REGISTERING THE RECEIPT OF CASH, VALUABLES, OR TOKENS
DOE Contract Number:  
AC02-98CH10886
Resource Type:
Patent
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS

Citation Formats

Veligdan, James T. Integrated display scanner. United States: N. p., 2004. Web.
Veligdan, James T. Integrated display scanner. United States.
Veligdan, James T. Tue . "Integrated display scanner". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1175175.
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Works referenced in this record:

Ten inch Planar Optic Display
report, April 1996