Handheld PC with Camera Used for Reading Information Dense Barcodes

Abstract

Abstract—We have made a working demonstration of a vision system using a personal digital assistant (PDA) with an integrated low resolution camera for reading a two dimensional (2D) barcode code. This demonstration will show the systems ability to decode information dense 2D barcodes in near real-time. Image analysis is done locally on the PDA with no external services used. Index Terms—Mobile communication, cameras, machine vision, bar code I.