| 摘要 |
1. Method of identifying contrasting line patterns on objects which appear in a random position and orientation and at random times on an image window and each comprise a characterising field on a surface facing the image window, which field includes symbols and at least one contrasting line pattern in at least one data track, which pattern characterises the position and the orientation of the data track and has a plurality of parallel lines with different spacings and/or line widths, the image window being scanned line-by-line and a binary video signal is produced which corresponds to the scanned contrasting line pattern and the subsequent symbols, the image window, in the first step of the method, being scanned at different angles until a prescribed contrasting line pattern is identified, in the second step of the method, the position and alignment of the data track relatively to the image window is identified and, in a third step of the method, a raster scan is effected in the direction of the data track and the symbols are read and decoded, with which, for identifying the contrasting line pattern (PIC), the interval lengths of overlapping light-dark intervals (I 1 to I 4) of the video signal are measured and represented in the form of binary counter readings (TC 1 to TC 4), the counter readings (TC 1 to TC 4) address a two-dimensional table, in which are contained an expectation field with criteria for a prescribed relationship of two successive interval lengths of the intervals (I 1 to I 4), the counter reading (TC N) corresponding to an interval length (IN; N = 1 to 4) addressing a line of the table and the counter reading corresponding to the following interval length (I N+1) addressing a column of the table, a signal (LPIC 1, LPIC2 , LPIC 3) is produced when the ratio of the two respectively following interval lengths is within a prescribed value range, and an identifying signal (PIC OUT) is supplied when in each case a signal (LPIC 1, LPIC2, LPIC 3) is produced with a number of successive addressing steps as prescribed by the contrasting line pattern (PIC), characterised in that one or more contrasting line patterns (PICm ; m = 1,2,3...) are scanned, both in the forward direction and the rearward direction, that the counter readings (TC 1m to TC 4m ) for each contrasting line pattern (PICm ) pass a forward expectation field with the forward scanning and a rearward expectation field with the rearward scanning, respectively, and that, in each case, a forward identifying signal (PICm OUT V) and a rearward identifying signal (PICm OUT R), respectively, is delivered when the corresponding contrasting line pattern (PICm ) has been recognised with scanning in the forward direction and rearward direction, respectively. |
