Image capture and processing system supporting a multi-tier modular software architecture

摘要

An image capture and processing system supports a multi-tier modular software, and plug-in extendable, architecture. The image capture and processing system can be realized as an image-capturing cell phone, a digital camera, a video camera, mobile computing terminal and portable data terminal (PDT), provided with suitable hardware platform, communication protocols and user interfaces. A third-party customer can write and install a software plug-in into the application layer so as to enhance or modify the behavior of the image capture and processing system without any required knowledge of the hardware platform, communication protocols and/or user interfaces.

主权项

1. A system, comprising:
an image formation and detection subsystem; an image capturing subsystem for capturing images detected by the image formation and detection subsystem; an image processing subsystem for processing images captured by the image capturing subsystem; a processing device; and memory comprising processing instructions that, when executed by the processing device, execute an application for reading indicia within the processed images and producing symbol character data representative of the read indicia; wherein the memory comprises a memory architecture that supports a multi-tier modular software architecture characterized by an operating system (OS) layer and an application layer in which the application for reading indicia and producing symbol character data is run.