Patent ID: 8596541

Claim:
A method comprising: detecting a barcode within a scene of interest with an image capture device operating in a non-barcode image capture mode, wherein detecting the barcode within the scene of interest further comprises: identifying transitions in intensity that exceed an intensity transition threshold as edges within a digital image of the scene of interest; identifying regions of the digital image with luminance intensity below an intensity threshold as low intensity regions; detecting the barcode within the digital image by detecting the barcode at a location within the digital image that includes the edges and the identified low intensity regions; generating an edge map and a low intensity map of the scene of interest; performing a morphological operation comprising at least a first dilation operation on the edge map and a second dilation operation on the low intensity map, wherein performing the first dilation operation generates a dilated edge map, and wherein performing the second dilation operation generates a dilated low intensity map; identifying the location based on the morphological operation; and combining the dilated edge map and the dilated low intensity map to form a combined image; configuring, based on the detection of the barcode, one or more image capture properties of the image capture device to improve an image quality of a region of the scene of interest that includes the detected barcode; and capturing an image of the scene of interest with the image capture device in accordance with the one or more configured image capture properties.