Patents Assigned to Symbol Technologies, Inc.
  • Patent number: 8970480
    Abstract: A system and method determines a management action as a function of device interactions. The method includes determining a first interaction data generated by an electronic device, the first interaction data being indicative of at least one of a device user interaction, a device environment interaction, and a device state interaction. The method includes generating, by the electronic device, a first notification data as a function of the first interaction data. The method includes transmitting the first notification data from the electronic device to a remote device management server. The method includes determining, by the device management server, a first management action data as a function of the first notification data, the first management action data being indicative of a functionality to be applied to the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Allan Herrod, Deepak Ayyagari, Edward Rowlance
  • Patent number: 8960551
    Abstract: A method of decoding using an imaging scanner having multiple object sensors each associated with an object field of view. The method includes determining a moving direction of the object using at least two of the multiple object sensors. The moving direction of the object points from a first side to a second side of the imaging scanner. The method includes detecting whether a new object is presence with the object sensor located on the first side of the imaging scanner, and upon detecting the presence of the new object within the object field of view of the object sensor located on the first side of the imaging scanner, capturing an image of the new object in memory with the solid-state imager.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert J. Pang, Edward D. Barkan, Thomas E. Lackemann
  • Patent number: 8964711
    Abstract: Providing a private connection for a mobile device in a wireless local area network includes a mobile device operable to associate to a home wireless local area network (WLAN), request a temporary digital extension from the WLAN, receive an assigned temporary digital extension from the WLAN, register with the WLAN using the temporary digital extension, and initiate a call from the temporary digital extension to a target extension. In addition, an in-store server is operable to register the temporary digital extension, recognize the temporary digital extension in the initiated call, establish the call to the target extension, and route the call between the temporary digital extension and the target extension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Naved Baig
  • Patent number: 8965303
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a main antenna and a diversity antenna. The diversity antenna includes a first portion configured to enable a transceiver to receive a signal in a first low-band frequency of four frequency bands. A second portion enables the transceiver to receive a signal in first and second high-band frequencies. A third portion is RF coupled to the first portion when the third portion is connected to ground. The third portion tunes the first portion such that the transceiver receives a signal in a second low-band frequency. A switch is connected between the third portion and the ground. When the switch is open, the first portion enables the transceiver to receive the signal in the first low-band frequency. When the switch is closed, the third portion tunes the first portion to enable the transceiver to receive the signal in the second low-band frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Guangli Yang, Sarika Jain
  • Patent number: 8963874
    Abstract: A touch-screen display apparatus, the apparatus may include first and second sheets having opposed major surfaces and a size and shape defined by a periphery. The periphery may be defined by opposed ends and opposed edges. The first and second sheets may each have a conductive pattern including a pair of opposed busbars and a plurality of traces electrically coupled to, and extending between, corresponding pairs of opposed busbars. The transparent force sensing (TFS) sheet may have opposed major surfaces and a variable resistance which is related to a force exerted upon one or more of its major surfaces. The TFS sheet may be situated between the first and second sheets. The apparatus may also include one or more separation portions situated between the TFS sheet and the first or second sheet to bias the TFS sheet apart from the first or second sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hao Li, Yi Wei, Steven Young
  • Patent number: 8960550
    Abstract: An arrangement for, and a method of, minimizing misdecodes of GS1 DataBar Limited (Databar-limited) symbols in a reader for electro-optically reading symbols of different symbologies, such as Universal Product Code (UPC) Version A (UPC-A) symbols, includes a data capture assembly for capturing light from a target symbol, and for generating an electrical signal indicative of the captured light; and a controller for processing and decoding the electrical signal, and for determining whether the decoded signal is indicative of a Databar-limited symbol, and for determining whether the decoded signal has characteristics indicative of a different symbology, such as the UPC-A symbol, to indicate whether a misdecode of the Databar-limited symbol has occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Dariusz J. Madej, Joseph Cai, Duanfeng He, Miroslav Trajkovic, Dayou Wang, Michelle Wang
  • Patent number: 8963883
    Abstract: A touchless interactive display system includes a display with a display area bounding the display. A reflective surface is located along an edge of the display. One optical sensor opposes and faces the reflective surface so that the optical sensor has a primary, non-reflected field of view and a secondary, reflected field of view that is reflected back from the reflective surface. The primary field of view covers a first portion of the display area that is less than the whole display area, and the reflected field of view covers a second portion of the display area, such that the first and second portions of the display area cover the entire display area. The optical sensor and a processor are operable to detect an object placed within at least one of its first and second fields of view without having the object touch the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrenahalli M. Narendra, Eric S. Reifsnider, Veeraraghavan A. Anantha
  • Publication number: 20150048164
    Abstract: Method and apparatus of reading the screen of a mobile computing device. The apparatus is an imaging scanner that includes a NFC device having a NFC antenna. The imaging scanner also includes an illumination system operative to illuminate a target object with illumination light. Under a first condition that no NFC signal from the mobile computing device is received by the NFC device, the illumination system is configured to generate a first illumination light with a first intensity. Under a second condition that the NFC signal from the mobile computing device is received by the NFC device, the illumination system is configured to generate a second illumination light with a second intensity. The second intensity is less than the first intensity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2013
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Applicant: Symbol Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael S. Slutsky
  • Patent number: 8953570
    Abstract: A method of operating a radio frequency identification (RFID) system is provided. The method interrogates RFID tags with an RFID reader and provides at least some of the collected tag data to a mobile device that is unable to communicate with RFID tags using the over-the-air interface. In some situations, the RFID system obtains the current location of the mobile device and determines the location of a target tag relative to the current location of the mobile device. Locating the target tag in this manner involves the interrogation of a reference tag located at the mobile device, along with the target tag, using one RFID reader. The position of the target tag relative to the reference tag is calculated in response to the tag response signals obtained from the target and reference tags. Moreover, location of the target tag can be independently determined relative to the location of a mobile reader, by using a reference tag attached to a fixed reader or to the mobile reader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Lang Lin, Chandrashekhara Harischandra, Deepak Khade
  • Patent number: 8950676
    Abstract: An arrangement for, and a method of, electro-optically reading a target by image capture, employ an aiming assembly for projecting an aiming light pattern on the target that is located within a range of working distances relative to a housing, an imaging assembly for capturing an image of the target and of the aiming light pattern over a field of view, and for generating an electrical signal indicative of the captured image, and a controller for determining a distance of the target relative to the housing based on a position of the aiming light pattern in the captured image, and for processing the electrical signal into information relating to the target when the target lies in a restricted zone within the range of working distances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Miroslav Trajkovic, Dariusz Madej
  • Patent number: 8950673
    Abstract: An imaging system for acquiring images of multiple indicia, such as symbols and non-symbols, on a target, such as a label, comprises a solid-state imager having an array of image sensors for capturing light from the indicia on the target over a field of view, and a controller having a stored template that identifies details of the indicia on the target, for controlling the imager to capture the light from the indicia based on the details identified by the template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Dariusz J. Madej, Miroslav Trajkovic
  • Patent number: 8950674
    Abstract: An imaging lens assembly captures return light from a target, and projects the captured light onto a solid-state imager during electro-optical reading of the target. One plastic lens and one glass lens, together having a relatively low negative optical power, are situated at one side of an aperture stop. Another plastic lens and another glass lens, together having a relatively high positive optical power, are situated at the opposite side of the aperture stop. An aperture extends along an optical axis through the opposite sides. Each plastic lens is configured with opposite aspheric nearly concentric surfaces to widen and flatten the field of view of the imager, and to reduce sensitivity to manufacturing and assembly tolerances. A holder holds the lenses and the aperture stop in spaced relation along the optical axis relative to the imager.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Rong Liu, Vladimir Gurevich
  • Publication number: 20150040001
    Abstract: A mobile device captures information from a document. The mobile device selects a template stored in a memory of the mobile device. The selected template describes data content of at least one document. The mobile device then captures an image of a document, determines that the image corresponds to one document described by the selected template by verifying that at least one first region in the image corresponds to a region of the document described by the selected template, identifies at least one region in the image that corresponds with a region in the document described by the selected template, and processes information in the identified region in the image. The mobile device then aggregates application specific information from the processed information and presents the aggregated application specific information to a user program operating on the mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: Symbol Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Anu Kannan, Alan J. Epshteyn, Duanfeng He
  • Patent number: 8947745
    Abstract: A imaging scanner identifies first and second locations in a first and second captured image of a document, analyzes each character in the identified locations, and produces a first and second string, each including a character and a confidence value. The device determines that a first measurement of the confidence values in each of the first and second string is beyond a range of a first threshold. The device compares the confidence value for each character in the first string with a corresponding confidence value in the second string, selects a character from one of the first or second string with a higher confidence value; and produces a combined string including the selected characters and the confidence value associated with each selected character.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Ming-Xi Zhao
  • Patent number: 8939371
    Abstract: A bi-optical, dual window, point-of-transaction workstation images indicia associated with multi-sided products by splitting the field of view of each imager into a plurality of subfields that simultaneously extend through each window over regions of the product. A plurality of energizable illuminators, one for each subfield, illuminates each subfield with illumination light over an adjustable illumination time. The illumination light returned from the indicia in each subfield is captured along respective optical paths from each window to each imager. A plurality of exposure sensors, one for each subfield, and located externally of each imager, senses the returned illumination light in each subfield. A controller energizes each illuminator to illuminate each subfield, deenergizes each illuminator when the returned illumination light sensed by the respective exposure sensors exceeds a threshold, and processes the captured illumination light in at least one of the subfields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Edward Barkan
  • Patent number: 8934867
    Abstract: An on-demand access tunnel to a service provider is provided for a mobile device that first receives information about supported service providers from a wireless communication network entity. The mobile device can select a supported service provider and start an association process to communicate with the selected service provider. The network entity determines the selected service provider and sets up a tunnel connection from an access point of the wireless communication network to the selected service provider. The tunnel connection is torn down when the mobile device dissociates from the access point and no other device is connected to the service provider network using the tunnel connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Senthilraj Shanmugavadivel, Anil Kaushik, Raj Kiran
  • Patent number: 8925814
    Abstract: A target is read in the presence of interference light. A photodetector generates an output signal composed of an information signal and an interference light signal. A rangefinder determines the distance of the target in a range of working distances. A controller adjusts a scan angle of a scan drive to a narrow value and adjusts an output power of a laser diode to a low power level when the target is determined to be far out in the range. The controller adjusts the scan angle to a wide value and adjusts the output power to a high power level when the target is determined to be close in the range. Signal processing circuitry processes the output signal with the information signal having a greater magnitude than that of the interference signal due to the high power level to mitigate the presence of the interference light. A power safety arrangement including dual power monitors checks the output power of the laser beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary G Schneider, Peter Fazekas, James R Giebel, Mark A Weitzner
  • Patent number: 8925815
    Abstract: A checkout system includes a clerk-operated bi-optical workstation through which products having target data are passed to a bagging area, and a customer-operated accessory reader having an accessory window facing the bagging area and a data capture assembly for capturing additional target data of additional targets associated with transaction-related items, particularly over a restricted range of working distances that terminates short of the bagging area, and for preventing the accessory reader from capturing the target data of the products in the bagging area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Dariusz J. Madej, Miroslav Trajkovic, Igor R. Vinogradov
  • Patent number: 8929803
    Abstract: A method and system for a radio frequency barrier in a wireless communication network include a barrier defined for protecting a space within the wireless communication network. A plurality of antennas is located along the barrier. A radio provides radio frequency signals to transmit from the antennas to interfere with radio frequency communications impinging on the barrier. The interfering radio frequency signals can provide same channel and adjacent channel interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Deanna Hong
  • Patent number: D721705
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sunghun Lim, Robert A. Spano, Carl DeGiovine