COOKING EQUIPMENT WITH BAR CODE SCANNER AND METHOD OF ITS CONTROL Russian patent published in 2008 - IPC G06K19/08 

FIELD: personal items.

SUBSTANCE: cooking equipment with a bar code scanner recognising a position of a bar code and automatically regulating focusing in accordance with the recognised position of the bar code when the bar code is out of limits of a focus distance of the bar code scanner; and a method of its control. Cooking equipment includes a detector to recognise a distance from the bar code to the bar code scanner, a control device to calculate a distance of the bar code scanner displacement on the base of the distance from the bar code to the scanner so that the bar code scanner is able to recognise the bar code, and a focusing regulator, controlled by means of a control device to replace the bar code scanner at a calculated displacement distance.

EFFECT: providing ease of use.

20 cl, 5 dwg