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Michael Schnee
Also filed as: SCHNEE MICHAEL · SCHNEE MICHAEL D
89 granted patents·9 pending applications·4,748 citations·filing 1999–2013
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98 records- 0199US7527205B2Automated package dimensioning systemMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2006·Granted May 5, 2009·186 cites·11 claims
- 0299US7128266B2Hand-supportable digital imaging-based bar code symbol reader supporting narrow-area and wide-area modes of illumination and image captureMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2003·Granted Oct 31, 2006·785 cites·8 claims
- 0398US9030964B2Wireless network deviceMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2013·Granted May 12, 2015·523 cites·20 claims
- 0498US6971580B2Automated method of and system for dimensioning objects over a conveyor belt structure by applying contouring tracing, vertice detection, corner point detection, and corner point reduction methods to two-dimensional range data maps of the space above the conveyor belt captured by an amplitude modulated laser scanning beamMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Dec 6, 2005·162 cites·17 claims
- 0598US6913202B2Planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) engineMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Jul 5, 2005·105 cites·20 claims
- 0697US7513430B2Digital image capturing and processing system employing an area-type image sensing array exposed to narrow-band illumination from a narrow-band illumination subsystem for a time duration controlled using a photodetector operated independently from said area-type image sensing arrayMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2006·Granted Apr 7, 2009·36 cites·28 claims
- 0797US7104453B1Unitary package identification and dimensioning system employing ladar-based scanning methodsMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2000·Granted Sep 12, 2006·125 cites·4 claims
- 0897US7086595B2Method of and apparatus for processing captured digital images of objects within a semi-automatic hand-supportable imaging-based bar code symbol reader so as to read 1d and/or 2d bar code symbols graphically represented thereinMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2004·Granted Aug 8, 2006·80 cites·28 claims
- 0997US6827265B2Automatic vehicle identification and classification (AVIC) system employing a tunnel-arrangement of PLIIM-based subsystemsMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Dec 7, 2004·82 cites·13 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
- 1196US8457013B2Wireless dual-function network device dynamically switching and reconfiguring from a wireless network router state of operation into a wireless network coordinator state of operation in a wireless communication networkESSINGER STEVEN·Filed 2009·Granted Jun 4, 2013·684 cites·8 claims
- 1296US7240844B2Hand-suportable imaging-based bar code symbol reader employing an automatic light exposure measurement and illumination control subsystem for measuring illumination exposure on CMOS image sensing array and controlling LED illumination array driver circuitryMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2004·Granted Jul 10, 2007·70 cites·9 claims
- 1396US6971577B2Method 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
- 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
- 1595US7281661B2Hand-supportable digital imaging-based bar code symbol reading system employing a method of intelligently illuminating an object so as to generate a digital image thereof which is substantially free of noise caused by specular-type reflectionMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2004·Granted Oct 16, 2007·55 cites·25 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
- 1795US6705526B1Automated method of and system for dimensioning objects transported through a work environment using contour tracing, vertice detection, corner point detection, and corner point reduction methods on two-dimensional range data maps captured by an amplitude modulated laser scanning beamMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2000·Granted Mar 16, 2004·125 cites·19 claims
- 1895US6629641B2Method 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
- 1994US7743990B2Imaging engine employing planar light illumination and linear imagingMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2006·Granted Jun 29, 2010·34 cites·29 claims
- 2094US7490774B2Hand-supportable imaging based bar code symbol reader employing automatic light exposure measurement and illumination control subsystem integrated thereinMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2004·Granted Feb 17, 2009·63 cites·10 claims
- 2194US7320431B2Digital imaging-based bar code symbol reading system employing a multi-mode illumination subsystem with far-field and near field led-based illumination arraysMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2004·Granted Jan 22, 2008·42 cites·19 claims
- 2294US7237722B2Hand-supported imaging-based bar code symbol reader employing a multi-mode image-processing based bar code reading subsystem with modular image-processing architectureMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2004·Granted Jul 3, 2007·42 cites·42 claims
- 2394US7185817B2Hand-supportable digital imaging-based bar codes symbol reader employing multi-mode subsystemsMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2004·Granted Mar 6, 2007·47 cites·9 claims
- 2494US6978936B2Method 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
- 2593US7527200B2Planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) systems with integrated despeckling mechanisms provided thereinMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2006·Granted May 5, 2009·17 cites·10 claims
- 2693US7360706B2Hand-supportable imaging-based auto-discriminating 1D/2D bar code symbol reader employing a multi-mode image processing bar code symbol reading subsystem having a plurality of modes of operation which are dynamically reconfigurable in response to real-time image analysisMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2004·Granted Apr 22, 2008·39 cites·18 claims
- 2793US7357325B2Hand-supportable imaging-based bar code symbol reader employing a CMOS-type image sensor using global exposure techniquesMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2004·Granted Apr 15, 2008·39 cites·8 claims
- 2893US7255279B2Hand-supportable digital imaging-based bar code reading system wherein, during each imaging cycle, a single frame of pixel data is automatically detected by a CMOS area-type image sensing array when substantially all rows of pixels therein are in a state of integration and have a common integration time, and then pixel data is transmitted from said CMOS area-type image sensing array into a FIFO buffer, and then mapped into memory for subsequent image processingMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2004·Granted Aug 14, 2007·37 cites·16 claims
- 2993US6837437B2Planar 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
- 3093US6830184B2Method 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
- 3192US7428998B2Automatic hand-supportable image-based bar code symbol reader having image-processing based bar code reading subsystem employing simple decode image processing operations applied in an outwardly-directed manner referenced from the center of a captured narrow-area digital image of an object bearing a 1D bar code symbolMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2004·Granted Sep 30, 2008·34 cites·8 claims
- 3292US7178733B2Hand-supportable imaging-based bar code symbol reader employing automatic object presence and range detection to control the generation of near-field and far-field wide-area illumination during bar code symbol imaging operationsMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2004·Granted Feb 20, 2007·32 cites·4 claims
- 3392US7131586B2Method 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
- 3492US7066391B2Hand-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
- 3592US6786414B2Planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) systemsMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Sep 7, 2004·29 cites·14 claims
- 3691US7267282B2Hand-supportable imaging-based bar code symbol reader capable of exposing an automatically detected object to a field of narrow-band LED-based illumination only when substantially all rows of pixels in a CMOS image sensing array are in a state of integrationMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2004·Granted Sep 11, 2007·29 cites·5 claims
- 3791US7225989B2Method of performing auto-discrimination of 1D/2D bar code symbologies in a semi-automatic hand-supportable imaging-based bar code symbol reader having narrow-area and wide-area image capture modes of operationMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2004·Granted Jun 5, 2007·29 cites·6 claims
- 3891US7188770B2Hand-supportable semi-automatic imaging-based bar code reading system wherein an led-based illumination subsystem automatically illuminates a detected target object in a narrow-area field of illumination, and illuminates the detected target object in a wide-area field of illumination upon manual activation of a trigger switchMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2004·Granted Mar 13, 2007·31 cites·25 claims
- 3991US6988661B2Automated 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
- 4090US7600689B2Tunnel-based object identification and dimensioning systemMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2007·Granted Oct 13, 2009·15 cites·3 claims
- 4189US7604175B2Method of reading bar code symbols using a digital-imaging based code symbol reading system employing an event-driven multi-tier modular software architecture and supporting automatic operating system login and loading of bar code symbol reading applicationMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2007·Granted Oct 20, 2009·8 cites·12 claims
- 4289US7278575B2Hand-supportable image-based bar code symbol reader employing helically-sweeping feature-extraction analysis on a captured digital image of an object referenced from the center thereofMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2004·Granted Oct 9, 2007·24 cites·6 claims
- 4389US7213762B2Hand-supportable imaging-based bar code symbol reader employing a CMOS-type image sensing array in combination with a band-pass optical filter subsystem, narrow-band illumination subsystem, and automatic light exposure measurement and illumination control subsystemMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2004·Granted May 8, 2007·23 cites·5 claims
- 4489US7028899B2Method 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
- 4588US7668406B2Digital image acquisition system capable of compensating for changes in relative object velocityMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2007·Granted Feb 23, 2010·25 cites·7 claims
- 4688US7164810B2Planar light illumination and linear imaging (PLILIM) device with image-based velocity detection and aspect ratio compensationMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Jan 16, 2007·65 cites·20 claims
- 4786US7216810B2Hand-supportable multi-mode digital imaging-based bar code symbol reader employing an automatic illumination and exposure control subsystem that automatically controls the operation of a multi-mode led-based illumination subsystem so that detected objects are sufficiently illuminated and good quality digital images thereof are formed and detectedMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2004·Granted May 15, 2007·17 cites·5 claims
- 4886US7077319B2Imaging engine employing planar light illumination and linear imagingMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Jul 18, 2006·36 cites·31 claims
- 4986US7070107B2Led-based planar light illumination and imaging (PLIIM) systemsMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Jul 4, 2006·21 cites·9 claims
- 5086US6991166B2LED-based planar light illumination and imaging (PLIIM) engineMETROLOGIC INSTR INC·Filed 2002·Granted Jan 31, 2006·13 cites·20 claims
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