Patent ID: 7066388
Filing Date: 2006-06-27
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. An RFID reader and imaging system for verifying an RFID read for determining if an RFID tag that was read is an RFID tag that was intended to be read, said system comprising: RFID reader circuitry for reading an RFID tag including receiving RFID tag data from the RFID tag; an imaging engine having an array of image sensors for sensing an image of an object and generating image data corresponding to said object; a database storing a plurality of RFID codes and image data associated with respective RFID codes of the plurality of RFID codes, wherein the associated image data represents at least one image of at least one object having an RFID tag; and a processing unit for receiving the RFID tag data from the RFID reader circuitry and the generated image data from the imaging engine, said processing unit comprising: