US Patent 11176454 Optoelectronic code reader and method for reading optical codes

An optoelectronic code reader (10) having at least one light receiving element (24) for generating image data from reception light and an evaluation unit (26) with a classifier (30) being implemented in the evaluation unit (26) for assigning code information to code regions (20) of the image date, wherein the classifier (30) is configured for machine learning and is trained by means of supervised learning based on codes read by a classic decoder (28) which does not make use of methods of machine learning.