Right you are Paul  ....
egg on my face
Gus


> On Mar 30, 2010, at 3:58 PM, Paul Hutchinson wrote:
>
> In this case the title of the patent is not really descriptive of the
> patent. The abstract is very descriptive and IMO it looks like a  
> good patent
> for a very inexpensive way to get more accurate test strip readings.
>
> "A test strip reader is provided with an optical mouse integrated  
> circuit
> sensor that reads the test line, reference line and control line of a
> lateral flow assay strip by light absorption and determines the  
> position of
> the test strip beneath the image on the integrated circuit board using
> digital signal processing algorithms. The digital signal processing
> algorithms process the imaged surface at a very high rate (e.g.,  
> 1500 frames
> per second) to determine the direction and speed of movement of the  
> lateral
> strip with respect to the reader optics and image capture  
> components. The
> sensor outputs this position information in a quadrature pattern  
> format. A
> microcontroller uses the known position of the strip with respect to  
> the
> reader to calculate the optical absorption of each colored reagent  
> line, and
> the diagnostic significance (i.e., either qualitative or  
> quantitative) of
> the test strip."
>
> Paul Hutch
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu On Behalf Of YES NOPE9
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 4:56 PM
>>
>> http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/7444005/description.html
>> US Patent 7444005 - Apparatus and method for using optical mouse
>> engine to determine speed, direction, position of scanned device and
>> to obtain quantitative or qualitative data from same
>>
>> US Patent Issued on October 28, 2008
>> Estimated Patent Expiration Date:  November 4, 2023
>>
>> Gus
>
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