Patent ID: 7059524
Filing Date: 2006-06-13
Classification: G02B,G06K,H01S

Abstract:
1. A Quadrupole Resonance (QR) parcel object scanning-tunnel system for automatically acquiring and linking object identity and attribute information about each object transported through said QR object scanning-tunnel system while bearing a bar code symbol and/or identifying graphical indicia on the exterior surface thereof, said QR object scanning-tunnel system comprising: a scanning-tunnel housing having an input port and an output port, through which one or more objects can be transported; a planar light illumination and imaging (PLIIM) based subsystem, integrated within said scanning-tunnel housing, and including a QR scanning subsystem mounted within said scanning-tunnel housing, for producing low-intensity electromagnetic radio waves for scanning the interior and/or contents of each object transported through said scanning-tunnel housing, and automatically producing digital images of said interior and/or contents; and an information linking computer subsystem programmed for automatically linking (i) digital images of the interior and/or contents of each said transported object produced by said QR scanning subsystem, with (ii) object identification information produced by said PLIIM-based subsystem, for storage within a relational database management system (RDBMS) for subsequent access and retrieval.