“Apple has received a Granted Patent that relates to a Point-of-Sale System,” Jack Purcher reports for Patently Apple.
“Apple’s invention covers methods and systems for scanning two or more images visually encoded to have different types of codes encoded therein, in a single scanning operation, and processing the codes,” Purcher reports. “In some embodiments, the present technology is particularly useful in the retail environment, wherein some products now have multiple barcodes which must be scanned to complete the transaction.”
Purcher reports, “To round off our report we present you with the links to the remaining 9 granted patents of the day which covers chroma noise reduction for cameras and much more.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
I did invent POS in my bathroom. It is a prior art, plain and simple. I will sue them..
I’m pretty sure someone else beat *you* to it in his cave 150K years ago.