Patent ID: 11922270
Assignee: ZEBRA TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 13:
14. An apparatus comprising:
an image sensor configured to capture a first color digital image;
a processor configured to:
convert the first color digital image to a second color digital image, wherein the second color digital image includes a plurality of pixels represented by respective ones of a plurality of luminance components and respective ones of a plurality of color components;
determine, based on the plurality of luminance components, a plurality of barcode indicative characteristics for respective ones of a plurality of regions of the second color digital image;
determine, based on the plurality of color components, a plurality of color content amounts for respective ones of the plurality of regions; and
identify one or more regions of the plurality of regions that have their respective color content amount satisfy a first criteria, and their respective barcode indicative characteristic satisfy a second criteria; and

a barcode decoder configured to process at least some image data corresponding to each of the one or more regions to attempt to identify one or more barcodes in the second color digital image.