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Constantine J. Tsikos
Also filed as: TSIKOS CONSTANTINE · TSIKOS CONSTANTINE J
72 granted patents·1 pending application·3,526 citations·filing 1980–2007
99Inventor score
Files withMETROLOGIC INSTR INC62SIEMENS CORP RES & SUPPORT4GEN ELECTRIC3METPOLOGIC INSTR INC1SIEMENS CORP1
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73 records- 0199US7527205B2Automated package dimensioning systemMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2006·Granted May 5, 2009·186 cites·11 claims
- 0299US6837432B2Method 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 subsystemMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Jan 4, 2005·200 cites·22 claims
- 0399US4507557ANon-contact X,Y digitizer using two dynamic ram imagersSIEMENS CORP RES & SUPPORT·Filed 1983·Granted Mar 26, 1985·368 cites·21 claims
- 0499US4353056ACapacitive fingerprint sensorSIEMENS CORP·Filed 1980·Granted Oct 5, 1982·458 cites·4 claims
- 0598US6913202B2Planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) engineMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Jul 5, 2005·105 cites·20 claims
- 0698US6739511B2Method 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 phase modulation techniques during the transmission of the plib towards the targetMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted May 25, 2004·115 cites·12 claims
- 0798US6736321B2Planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) system employing wavefront control methods for reducing the power of speckle-pattern noise digital images acquired by said systemMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2001·Granted May 18, 2004·179 cites·14 claims
- 0897US7104453B1Unitary package identification and dimensioning system employing ladar-based scanning methodsMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2000·Granted Sep 12, 2006·125 cites·4 claims
- 0997US6863216B2Method 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 targetFiled 2002·Granted Mar 8, 2005·70 cites·28 claims
- 1097US6742707B1Method of speckle-noise pattern reduction and apparatus therefor based on reducing the spatial-coherence of the planar laser illumination beam before the beam illuminates the target object by applying spatial phase shifting techniques during the transmission of the plib theretowardsMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2001·Granted Jun 1, 2004·84 cites·16 claims
- 1196US6971577B2Method 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 objectMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Dec 6, 2005·57 cites·14 claims
- 1296US6962289B2Method of and system for producing high-resolution 3-D images of 3-D object surfaces having arbitrary surface geometryMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Nov 8, 2005·73 cites·11 claims
- 1396US6857570B2Method 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 targetMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Feb 22, 2005·66 cites·9 claims
- 1496US6631842B1Method of and system for producing images of objects using planar laser illumination beams and image detection arraysMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2000·Granted Oct 14, 2003·58 cites·15 claims
- 1596US4979815ALaser range imaging system based on projective geometryTSIKOS CONSTANTINE J·Filed 1989·Granted Dec 25, 1990·227 cites·87 claims
- 1695US6830185B2Method 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 objectMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Dec 14, 2004·56 cites·14 claims
- 1795US6629641B2Method of and system for producing images of objects using planar laser illumination beams and image detection arraysMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2001·Granted Oct 7, 2003·60 cites·33 claims
- 1894US6978936B2Method 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 objectsMETPOLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Dec 27, 2005·59 cites·14 claims
- 1993US7527200B2Planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) systems with integrated despeckling mechanisms provided thereinMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2006·Granted May 5, 2009·17 cites·10 claims
- 2093US6957775B2Internet-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 functionsMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Oct 25, 2005·33 cites·20 claims
- 2193US6837437B2Planar laser illumination modules (PLIMS) employed in a planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) systemMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Jan 4, 2005·33 cites·5 claims
- 2293US6830184B2Method of and apparatus for automatically compensating for viewing-angle distortion in digital linear images of object surfaces moving past a planar laser illumination and imaging (pliim) based camera system at skewed viewing anglesMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Dec 14, 2004·34 cites·18 claims
- 2392US7131586B2Method of and apparatus for reducing speckle-pattern noise in a planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) based systemMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2003·Granted Nov 7, 2006·36 cites·18 claims
- 2492US7066391B2Hand-supportable planar laser illumination and imaging (pliim) based camera system capable of producing digital linear images of an object, containing pixels having a substantially uniform aspect-ratio independent of the measured relative velocity of an object while manually moving said pliim based camera system past said object during illumination and imaging operationsMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Jun 27, 2006·33 cites·7 claims
- 2592US6959868B2Tunnel-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 operationsMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Nov 1, 2005·29 cites·39 claims
- 2692US6786414B2Planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) systemsMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Sep 7, 2004·29 cites·14 claims
- 2791US6988661B2Automated object identification and attribute acquisition system having a multi-compartment housing with optically-isolated light transmission apertures for operation of a planar laser illumination and imaging (pliim) based linear imaging subsystem and a laser-baseMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Jan 24, 2006·24 cites·18 claims
- 2891US4547668ATwo-dimensional pressure sensor using retro-reflective tape and semi-transparent mediumSIEMENS CORP RES & SUPPORT·Filed 1983·Granted Oct 15, 1985·53 cites·7 claims
- 2990US7600689B2Tunnel-based object identification and dimensioning systemMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2007·Granted Oct 13, 2009·15 cites·3 claims
- 3090US7152795B2Bioptical product and produce identification systems employing planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIM) based subsystemsMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Dec 26, 2006·20 cites·8 claims
- 3189US7028899B2Method of speckle-noise pattern reduction and apparatus therefore based on reducing the temporal-coherence of the planar laser illumination beam before it illuminates the target object by applying temporal phase modulation techniques during the transmission of the plib towards the targetMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2001·Granted Apr 18, 2006·19 cites·12 claims
- 3286US7070107B2Led-based planar light illumination and imaging (PLIIM) systemsMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Jul 4, 2006·21 cites·9 claims
- 3386US6991166B2LED-based planar light illumination and imaging (PLIIM) engineMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Jan 31, 2006·13 cites·20 claims
- 3486US6971576B2Generalized 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 plibMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Dec 6, 2005·17 cites·10 claims
- 3585US6830189B2Method of and system for producing digital images of objects with subtantially reduced speckle-noise patterns by illuminating said objects with spatially and/or temporally coherent-reduced planar laser illuminationMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2001·Granted Dec 14, 2004·40 cites·8 claims
- 3684US6991165B2Method 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 intensity modulation techniques during the transmission of the plib towards the targetMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Jan 31, 2006·9 cites·24 claims
- 3783US7104455B2Planar light illumination and imaging (PLIIM) system employing LED-based planar light illumination arrays (PLIAS) and an area-type image detection arrayMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Sep 12, 2006·17 cites·26 claims
- 3883US6997386B2Planar laser illumination and imaging (pliim) device employing a linear image detection array having vertically-elongated image detection elements, wherein the height of the vertically-elongated image detection elements and the f/# parameter of the image formation optics are configured to reduce speckle-pattern noise power through spatial-averaging of detected speckle-noise patternsMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Feb 14, 2006·8 cites·33 claims
- 3983US6978935B2Planar 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 systemMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Dec 27, 2005·9 cites·30 claims
- 4083US6959869B2Automatic vehicle identification (AVI) system employing planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) based subsystemsMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Nov 1, 2005·51 cites·17 claims
- 4182US6953151B2Planar 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 objectMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Oct 11, 2005·12 cites·14 claims
- 4281US7832643B2Hand-supported planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) based systems with laser despeckling mechanisms integrated thereinMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2007·Granted Nov 16, 2010·7 cites·29 claims
- 4381US7673803B2Planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) based engineMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2007·Granted Mar 9, 2010·7 cites·14 claims
- 4481US7584893B2Tunnel-type digital imaging system for use within retail shopping environments such as supermarketsMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2007·Granted Sep 8, 2009·7 cites·22 claims
- 4581US6953152B2Hand-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 operationsMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Oct 11, 2005·11 cites·5 claims
- 4681US6880756B2Method 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 plibMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Apr 19, 2005·6 cites·6 claims
- 4780US7513428B2Planar laser illumination and imaging device employing laser current modulation to generate spectral components and reduce temporal coherence of laser beam, so as to achieve a reduction in speckle-pattern noise during time-averaged detection of images of objects illuminated thereby during imaging operationsMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2006·Granted Apr 7, 2009·6 cites·16 claims
- 4879US6948659B2Hand-supportable planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) deviceMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Sep 27, 2005·9 cites·42 claims
- 4978US6877662B2Led-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 opticsMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Apr 12, 2005·9 cites·16 claims
- 5078US6764008B2Planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) system employing an area-type image detection arrayMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Jul 20, 2004·10 cites·29 claims
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