Noise-limited reading of bar codes

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 816-824

  Boie, Robert A ^a   Turin, William ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Filters; Gaussian noise; Image sensors; Intersymbol interference; Jitter; Machine vision; Photodetectors

Indexed keywords

BAR CODES; COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE SENSORS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

CHECKOUT SCANNERS;

PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 0031374211     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/41.649943     Document Type: Article

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