Patent Document ID: 20070262152
Application ID: 11729525
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A digital image capture and processing system for automatically recognizing objects at a point of sale (POS) station, comprising: a system housing having an imaging window, and containing a digital image capturing and processing engine including a plurality of coplanar illumination and imaging stations, for generating and projecting a complex of coplanar illumination and imaging planes through said imaging window, and within a 3D imaging volume definable relative to said imaging window for omni-directional imaging of objects passing through said 3D imaging volume, and generating digital linear images of said object as said object intersects coplanar illumination and imaging planes within said 3D imaging volume during system operation; a database for storing one or more object libraries representing objects that can be recognized by said system; and a digital image processing subsystem for automatically (i) processing digital images generated by said coplanar illumination and imaging stations, (ii) extracting object features from processed digital images, and (iii) recognizing objects which are represented by said object libraries and producing information representative of said recognized objects for display at said POS station.