US Patent Issued to Scandit on Dec. 2 for "Multi-barcode detection in a real scene using interface enhancement based on user input" (Finnish, Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,473, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Scandit AG (Zurich).

"Multi-barcode detection in a real scene using interface enhancement based on user input" was invented by Matthias Bloch (Zurich), Ugur Kart (Tampere, Finland), Christian Floerkemeier (Zurich), Bernd Schoner (New York) and Suren Vagharshakyan (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Scanning for optical patterns in a real scene using one or more images of the real scene acquired by a camera can sometimes miscount a number of optical patterns in the scene. An interface is provided to allow a user to adjust a count of the number of optical patterns."

The patent was fil...