Issued Patents 2005
Showing 1–22 of 22 patents
| Patent # | Title | Co-Inventors | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6978935 | 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 | C. Harry Knowles, Xiaoxun Zhu, Michael Schnee, Ka Man Au, Allan Wirth +21 more | 2005-12-27 |
| 6978936 | 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 | C. Harry Knowles, Xiaoxun Zhu, Michael Schnee, Ka Man Au, Allan Wirth +21 more | 2005-12-27 |
| 6971578 | Planar laser illumination and imaging module (PLIIN) based semiconductor chips | — | 2005-12-06 |
| 6971575 | 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 | C. Harry Knowles, Xiaoxun Zhu, Michael Schnee, Allan Wirth, Timothy Good | 2005-12-06 |
| 6971577 | 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 | C. Harry Knowles, Xiaoxun Zhu, Michael Schnee, Ka Man Au, Allan Wirth +3 more | 2005-12-06 |
| 6971576 | GENERALIZED METHOD OF SPECKLE-NOISE PATTERN REDUCTION AND PARTICULAR FORMS OF APPARATUS THEREFOR BASED ON REDUCING THE SPATIAL-COHERENCE OF THE PLANAR LASER ILLUMINATION BEAM AFTER IT ILLUMINATES THE TARGET BY APPLYING SPATIAL INTENSITY MODULATION TECHNIQUES DURING THE DETECTION OF THE REFLECTED/SCATTERED PLIB | C. Harry Knowles, Allan Wirth, Andrew Jankevics, Timothy Good | 2005-12-06 |
| 6962289 | Method of and system for producing high-resolution 3-D images of 3-D object surfaces having arbitrary surface geometry | Pirooz Vatan, C. Harry Knowles, Xiaoxun Zhu | 2005-11-08 |
| 6959869 | Automatic vehicle identification (AVI) system employing planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) based subsystems | C. Harry Knowles, Xiaoxun Zhu, Michael Schnee | 2005-11-01 |
| 6959870 | Planar LED-based illumination array (PLIA) chips | Timothy Good, Thomas Amundsen, C. Harry Knowles | 2005-11-01 |
| 6959868 | TUNNEL-BASED METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING TRANSPORTED PACKAGES EMPLOYING THE TRANSMISSION OF PACKAGE DIMENSION DATA OVER A DATA COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF PACKAGE DIMENSION DATA AT LINEAR IMAGING SUBSYSTEMS IN SAID TUNNEL-BASED SYSTEM SO AS TO ENABLE THE CONTROL OF AUTO ZOOM/FOCUS CAMERA MODULES THEREWITHIN DURING LINEAR IMAGING OPERATIONS | C. Harry Knowles, Xiaoxun Zhu, Ka Man Au, Sankar Ghosh | 2005-11-01 |
| 6957775 | INTERNET-BASED METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR REMOTELY MONITORING, CONFIGURING AND SERVICING PLANAR LASER ILLUMINATION AND IMAGING (PLIIM) BASED NETWORKS WITH NODES FOR SUPPORTING OBJECT IDENTIFICATION AND ATTRIBUTE INFORMATION ACQUISITION FUNCTIONS | C. Harry Knowles, Xiaoxun Zhu, Ka Man Au, Barry E. Schwartz | 2005-10-25 |
| 6953151 | 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 | C. Harry Knowles, Xiaoxun Zhu, Michael Schnee, Ka Man Au, Allan Wirth +1 more | 2005-10-11 |
| 6953152 | 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 | C. Harry Knowles, Xiaoxun Zhu, Michael Schnee, Ka Man Au, Sankar Ghosh | 2005-10-11 |
| 6948659 | Hand-supportable planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) device | C. Harry Knowles, Michael Schnee, Timothy Good | 2005-09-27 |
| 6913202 | Planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) engine | C. Harry Knowles, Xiaoxun Zhu, Michael Schnee, Thomas Amundsen, Mark Schmidt +1 more | 2005-07-05 |
| 6896184 | 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 | Michael Schnee, Xiaoxum Zhu, Thomas Amundsen, Charles A. Naylor, Russell Joseph Dobbs +1 more | 2005-05-24 |
| 6880756 | METHOD OF SPECKLE-NOISE PATTERN REDUCTION AND APPARATUS THEREFOR BASED ON REDUCING THE TEMPORAL-COHERENCE OF THE PLANAR LASER ILLUMINATION BEAM (PLIB) AFTER IT ILLUMINATES THE TARGET BY APPLYING TEMPORAL INTENSITY MODULATION TECHNIQUES DURING THE DETECTION OF THE REFLECTED/SCATTERED PLIB | C. Harry Knowles, Allan Wirth, Timothy Good, Andrew Jankevics | 2005-04-19 |
| 6877662 | 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 | C. Harry Knowles, Xiaoxun Zhu, Michael Schnee, Ka Man Au, Timothy Good +2 more | 2005-04-12 |
| 6863216 | METHOD OF SPECKLE-NOISE PATTERN REDUCTION AND APPARATUS THEREFOR BASED ON REDUCING THE SPATIAL-COHERENCE OF THE PLANAR LASER ILLUMINATION BEAM BEFORE IT ILLUMINATES THE TARGET OBJECT BY APPLYING SPATIAL PHASE MODULATION TECHNIQUES DURING THE TRANSMISSION OF THE PLIB TOWARDS THE TARGET | C. Harry Knowles, Allan Wirth, Timothy Good, Andrew Jankevics | 2005-03-08 |
| 6857570 | METHOD OF SPECKLE-NOISE PATTERN REDUCTION AND APPARATUS THEREFOR BASED ON REDUCING THE TEMPORAL-COHERENCE OF THE PLANAR LASER ILLUMINATION BEAM BEFORE IT ILLUMINATES THE TARGET OBJECT BY APPLYING TEMPORAL FREQUENCY MODULATION TECHNIQUES DURING THE TRANSMISSION OF THE PLIB TOWARDS THE TARGET | C. Harry Knowles, Allan Wirth, Timothy Good, Andrew Jankevics | 2005-02-22 |
| 6837437 | Planar laser illumination modules (PLIMS) employed in a planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) system | Michael Schnee, Xiaoxun Zhu, Thomas Amundsen, Charles A. Naylor, Russell Joseph Dobbs +1 more | 2005-01-04 |
| 6837432 | METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY CROPPING CAPTURED LINEAR IMAGES OF A MOVING OBJECT PRIOR TO IMAGE PROCESSING USING REGION OF INTEREST (ROI) COORDINATE SPECIFICATIONS CAPTURED BY AN OBJECT PROFILING SUBSYSTEM | C. Harry Knowles, Xiaoxun Zhu, Ka Man Au, Sankar Ghosh | 2005-01-04 |