WISTRON NEWEB CORPORATION (Taiwan, Province of China)
Inventor
Burnside, Walter, D.
Abstract
In combination, an RFID antenna array, an RFID tag reader, and a power supply, the foregoing components being adapted to be worn or otherwise borne by a person and be operatively connected so that the power supply powers the reader and the reader energizes the antenna array and receives RFID tag signals through the antenna array while the person passes through an area as the person' s hands and arms are unencumbered by said components.
G06K 19/077 - Constructional details, e.g. mounting of circuits in the carrier
G06K 19/07 - Record carriers with conductive marks, printed circuits or semiconductor circuit elements, e.g. credit or identity cards with integrated circuit chips
G06K 17/00 - Methods or arrangements for effecting co-operative working between equipments covered by two or more of main groups , e.g. automatic card files incorporating conveying and reading operations
H01Q 7/00 - Loop antennas with a substantially uniform current distribution around the loop and having a directional radiation pattern in a plane perpendicular to the plane of the loop
WISTRON NEWEB CORPORATION (Taiwan, Province of China)
Inventor
Burnside, Walter, D.
Ryan, Joseph, M.
Abstract
A system and method for monitoring retail shelf inventory that combines bar code and RFID technologies permit electronic data entry of retail item shelf assignments and real time reporting of item removal fr display/dispensing shelves.
G06K 17/00 - Methods or arrangements for effecting co-operative working between equipments covered by two or more of main groups , e.g. automatic card files incorporating conveying and reading operations
G06K 9/18 - Methods or arrangements for reading or recognising printed or written characters or for recognising patterns, e.g. fingerprints using printed characters having additional code marks or containing code marks, e.g. the character being composed of individual strokes of different shape, each representing a different code value
G06K 7/10 - Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers by corpuscular radiation
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IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND RELATED MONITORING SYSTEM
An image processing system is disclosed. The image processing system comprises a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader unit, a microprocessor module and a memory unit. The RFID reader unit is used for retrieving tag data, wherein the tag data comprises timing stamp information. The microprocessor module is coupled to the RFID reader unit, and used for receiving image data and correlating the tag data with the image data to generate combination data, wherein the combination data comprises information of the tag data and the image data. The memory unit is coupled to the microprocessor module, and used for storing the combination data.
An RFID tag monitoring system with multiple reader units each equipped with processing capacity sufficient to enable the unit to operate autonomously under its own command and control as well as to register in its individual memory the identity of all of the items that potentially could be present at any particular time at a zone or zones to which it is assigned as well as the particular zone at which a specific RFID tagged item is found; data compression at the reader units permits timely reporting of inventory to a main computer.
G06K 17/00 - Methods or arrangements for effecting co-operative working between equipments covered by two or more of main groups , e.g. automatic card files incorporating conveying and reading operations
H04B 5/02 - Near-field transmission systems, e.g. inductive loop type using transceiver
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ELONGATED TWIN FEED LINE RFID ANTENNA WITH DISTRIBUTED RADIATION PERTURBATIONS
WISTRON NEWEB CORPORATION (Taiwan, Province of China)
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION (USA)
Inventor
Burnside, Walter, D.
Burkholder, Robert, J.
Tsai, Feng-Chi, Eddie
Abstract
An RFID antenna comprising an elongated structure existing along an axis that is long compared to the signal wavelength and including twin ribbon-like feed lines of electrically conductive material, the feed lines being in a common plane and being uniformly laterally spaced from one another, and a plurality of radiating perturbations associated with the feed lines at a plurality of locations spaced along the feed lines, at each location each feed line has its own individual perturbation or portion of a perturbation.
An antenna comprises a ground element, a first transmission element, a feed element, a second transmission element and a third transmission element. The first transmission element is electrically connected to the ground element, wherein the first transmission element comprises at least one coupling portion, a first side and a second side. The feed element corresponds to the coupling portion. The second transmission element corresponds to the first side and is electrically connected to the ground element. The third transmission element corresponds to the second side and is electrically connected to the ground element. When a first wireless signal is transmitted, the feed element couples to the first transmission element to transmit the first wireless signal. When a second wireless signal is transmitted, the feed element couples to the first transmission element, and the second and third transmission elements couple to the first transmission element to transmit the second wireless signal.
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