ISO/IEC 19762-1:2005

Information technology — Automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) techniques — Harmonized vocabulary — Part 1: General terms relating to AIDC

ISO/IEC 19762-1:2005 provides general terms and definitions in the area of automatic identification and data capture techniques on which are based further specialized sections in various technical fields, as well as the essential terms which should be used by non-specialist users in communication with specialists in automatic identification and data capture techniques.

Technologies de l'information — Techniques automatiques d'identification et de capture des données (AIDC) — Vocabulaire harmonisé — Partie 1: Termes généraux relatifs à l'AIDC

General Information

• Status: Withdrawn
• Publication Date: 14-Mar-2005
• Withdrawal Date: 14-Mar-2005
• ICS: 01.040.35 - Information technology (Vocabularies)
• ICS: 35.040 - Information coding
• ICS: 35.040.50 - Automatic identification and data capture techniques
• Technical Committee: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31 - Automatic identification and data capture techniques
• Drafting Committee: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31 - Automatic identification and data capture techniques
• Current Stage: 9599 - Withdrawal of International Standard
• Completion Date: 11-Jun-2008

Relations

• Revised: ISO/IEC 19762-1:2008 - Information technology — Automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) techniques — Harmonized vocabulary — Part 1: General terms relating to AIDC
• Effective Date: 15-Apr-2008

Standards Content (Sample)

INTERNATIONAL ISO/IEC
STANDARD 19762-1
First edition
2005-03-01


Information technology — Automatic
identification and data capture (AIDC)
techniques — Harmonized vocabulary —
Part 1:
General terms relating to AIDC
Technologies de l'information — Techniques d'identification
automatique et de capture de données (AIDC) — Vocabulaire
harmonisé —
Partie 1: Termes généraux relatifs à l'AIDC




Reference number
ISO/IEC 19762-1:2005(E)
©
ISO/IEC 2005

---------------------- Page: 1 ----------------------
ISO/IEC 19762-1:2005(E)
PDF disclaimer
This PDF file may contain embedded typefaces. In accordance with Adobe's licensing policy, this file may be printed or viewed but
shall not be edited unless the typefaces which are embedded are licensed to and installed on the computer performing the editing. In
downloading this file, parties accept therein the responsibility of not infringing Adobe's licensing policy. The ISO Central Secretariat
accepts no liability in this area.
Adobe is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated.
Details of the software products used to create this PDF file can be found in the General Info relative to the file; the PDF-creation
parameters were optimized for printing. Every care has been taken to ensure that the file is suitable for use by ISO member bodies. In
the unlikely event that a problem relating to it is found, please inform the Central Secretariat at the address given below.


©  ISO/IEC 2005
All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means,
electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and microfilm, without permission in writing from either ISO at the address below or
ISO's member body in the country of the requester.
ISO copyright office
Case postale 56 • CH-1211 Geneva 20
Tel. + 41 22 749 01 11
Fax + 41 22 749 09 47
E-mail [e-mail]
Web www.iso.org
Published in Switzerland

ii © ISO/IEC 2005 – All rights reserved

---------------------- Page: 2 ----------------------
ISO/IEC 19762-1:2005(E)
Contents Page
Foreword. iv
Introduction . v
Scope. 1
Classification of entries. 1
Terms and definitions. 1
Abbreviated terms. 15
Index . 17

© ISO/IEC 2005 – All rights reserved iii

---------------------- Page: 3 ----------------------
ISO/IEC 19762-1:2005(E)
Foreword
ISO (the International Organization for Standardization) and IEC (the International Electrotechnical
Commission) form the specialized system for worldwide standardization. National bodies that are members of
ISO or IEC participate in the development of International Standards through technical committees
established by the respective organization to deal with particular fields of technical activity. ISO and IEC
technical committees collaborate in fields of mutual interest. Other international organizations, governmental
and non-governmental, in liaison with ISO and IEC, also take part in the work. In the field of information
technology, ISO and IEC have established a joint technical committee, ISO/IEC JTC 1.
International Standards are drafted in accordance with the rules given in the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2.
The main task of the joint technical committee is to prepare International Standards. Draft International
Standards adopted by the joint technical committee are circulated to national bodies for voting. Publication as
an International Standard requires approval by at least 75 % of the national bodies casting a vote.
Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent
rights. ISO and IEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.
ISO/IEC 19762-1 was prepared by Joint Technical Committee ISO/IEC JTC 1, Information technology,
Subcommittee SC 31, Automatic identification and data capture techniques.
ISO/IEC 19762 consists of the following parts, under the general title Information technology — Automatic
identification and data capture (AIDC) techniques — Harmonized vocabulary:
— Part 1: General terms relating to AIDC
— Part 2: Optically readable media (ORM)
— Part 3: Radio frequency identification (RFID)
iv © ISO/IEC 2005 – All rights reserved

---------------------- Page: 4 ----------------------
ISO/IEC 19762-1:2005(E)
Introduction
ISO/IEC 19762 is intended to facilitate international communication in information technology, specifically in
the area of automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) techniques. It provides a listing of terms and
definitions used across multiple AIDC techniques.
Abbreviations used within each part of ISO/IEC 19762 and an index of all definitions used within each part of
ISO/IEC 19762 are found at the end of each document.

© ISO/IEC 2005 – All rights reserved v

---------------------- Page: 5 ----------------------
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ISO/IEC 19762-1:2005(E)

Information technology — Automatic identification and data
capture (AIDC) techniques — Harmonized vocabulary —
Part 1:
General terms relating to AIDC
Scope
This part of ISO/IEC 19762 provides general terms and definitions in the area of automatic identification and
data capture techniques on which are based further specialized sections in various technical fields, as well as
the essential terms which should be used by non-specialist users in communication with specialists in
automatic identification and data capture techniques.
Classification of entries
The numbering system employed within ISO 19762 is in the format nn.nn.nnn, in which the first two numbers
(nn.nn.nnn) represent the “Top Level” reflecting whether the term is related to 01 = Common to All AIDC
Techniques, 02 = Common to All Optically Readable Media, 03 = Linear Bar Code Symbols, 04 = Two-
dimensional Symbols, and 05 = Radio Frequency Identification. The second two numbers (nn.nn.nnn)
represent the “Mid Level” reflecting whether the term is related to 01 = Basic Concepts/Data, 02 = Technical
Features 03 Symbology, 04 = Hardware, and 05 = Applications. The third two or three numbers (nn.nn.nnn)
represent the “Fine” reflecting a sequence of terms.
The numbering in this part of ISO/IEC 19762 employs “Top Level” numbers (nn.nn.nnn) of 01
Terms and definitions
01.01.01
digital
pertaining to data that consist of digits as well as to processes and functional units that use those data
[ISO/IEC 2382-1:1993 01.02.04]
NOTE 1 Represented in a binary form rather than a continuously varying analogue form.
NOTE 2 In the context of integrated artwork, produced by a number of discrete dots rather than a continuous image.
01.01.02
error(1)
〈digital data〉 result of capture, storage, processing or communication of data in which a bit or bits assume the
wrong values, or bits are missing from a data stream
01.01.03
error(2)
discrepancy between a computed, observed, or measured value and condition and the true, specified, or
theoretically correct value or condition
© ISO/IEC 2005 – All rights reserved 1

---------------------- Page: 6 ----------------------
ISO/IEC 19762-1:2005(E)
01.01.04
error(3)
any invalid condition experienced by a system
NOTE An attempt to divide by zero is an example of an error.
01.01.05
error burst
group of bits in which two successive erroneous bits are always separated by less than a given number of
correct bits
01.01.06
error control(1)
any technique used to reduce the incidence of errors in the recording, processing or transfer of information
[IEC 60050-702 702-07-40]
01.01.07
error control(2)
〈data communications〉 part of a protocol that enables error detection and possibly error correction
01.01.08
error correcting code
error detecting code which permits the automatic correction of some of the errors detected
01.01.09
error detection code
redundant code in which the rules of construction permit the automatic detection of certain errors which have
been produced during recording, processing or transfer of information, when these errors have caused a
deviation from the rules
[IEC 60050-702 702-05-19]
01.01.10
file
named set of records treated as a unit
[ISO/IEC 2382-4:1999 04.07.10]
NOTE Files are stored within a computer, portable data terminal or information management system.
01.01.11
zero-suppression(1)
elimination of non-significant zeros from a numeral
01.01.12
zero-suppression(2)
function that allows the process by which unwanted zeros are omitted from the printed or displayed result of a
calculation
01.01.13
zero-suppression(3)
process of removing zeroes from specified positions in a UCC-12 data string in order to encode it in UPC-E
format
2 © ISO/IEC 2005 – All rights reserved

---------------------- Page: 7 ----------------------
ISO/IEC 19762-1:2005(E)
01.01.14
data
reinterpretable representation of information in a formalized manner suitable for communication, interpretation,
or processing
cf. information
[ISO/IEC 2382-1:1993 01.01.02]
NOTE 1 Data can be processed by humans or by automatic means.
NOTE 2 Data can be in the form of numbers and characters for example, to which meaning may be ascribed.
01.01.15
data coding
baseband data bit representation, or mapping of logical data bits to physical signals
01.01.16
data identifier
DI
specified character or string of characters, that defines the intended use of the data element that follows
NOTE For the purposes of automatic data capture technologies, Data Identifier means the alphanumeric identifiers,
as defined in ISO/IEC 15418, EAN/UCC Application Identifiers and MH 10 Data Identifiers and Maintenance and
ANS MH10.8.2.
01.01.17
data transmission
transfer of data from one point to one or more other points over telecommunication facilities
[ISO/IEC 2382-9 09.01.02]
01.01.18
information
〈information processing〉 knowledge concerning objects that within a certain context has a particular meaning
[ISO/IEC 2382-1:1993 01.01.01]
NOTE 1 Facts, events, things, processes, and ideas, including concepts, are examples of objects.
NOTE 2 Information is something which is meaningful. Data may be regarded as information once its meaning is
revealed.
01.01.19
message(1)
unit of information transmitted from a source to a destination
01.01.20
message(2)
〈information theory; communication theory〉 ordered sequence of characters intended to convey information
[ISO/IEC 2382-16 16.02.01]
01.01.21
read, noun
process of retrieving data from some machine-readable medium and, as appropriate, the contention and
error control management, and channel and source decoding required to recover and communicate the data
entered at source
© ISO/IEC 2005 – All rights reserved 3

---------------------- Page: 8 ----------------------
ISO/IEC 19762-1:2005(E)
01.01.22
read, verb
obtain data from an input device, from a storage device, or from a data medium
01.01.23
reader(1)
functional unit that is used for the acquisition or interpretation of data from a storage device, from a data
medium, or from another source
01.01.24
reader(2)
〈micrographics〉 device that enlarges micro images for viewing
01.01.25
license plate concept
concept where the fixed code contained in a machine-readable medium is used as a pointer into a database
NOTE Similar to the way in which the police can determine your name, address, etc. from your car number plate.
01.01.26
machine-readable medium
characteristic of automatic data capture media that permits the direct transfer of information from a medium
to a data processing system, without operator intervention
NOTE Linear bar code symbols and two-dimensional symbols, magnetic-stripe smart cards, contact memory buttons,
radio frequency identification biometrics, and optical character recognition are technologies of machine reading. The data
is usually contained in pre-defined locations (fields) within a data stream. This data can be interpreted by a computer
program.
01.01.27
readability
ability to retrieve data under specified conditions
01.01.28
electronic data interchange
EDI
electronic data interchange
exchange of data and documents between computer systems according to standard rules
01.01.29
interoperability testing
testing which checks that two or more products, pieces of equipment, or services, are able to perform together
a set of functions defined in specifications or standards
NOTE 1 The communication interface protocols between the products may be also covered by the
specifications/standards.
NOTE 2 Interoperability testing is a generic term, and a further refinement of its definition is necessary to distinguish
between end-to-end testing, compatibility testing, and mapping testing.
01.01.30
bit
binary digit
either of the digits 0 or 1 when used in the binary numeration system
[ISO/IEC 2382-1:1993 01.02.08]
4 © ISO/IEC 2005 – All rights reserved

---------------------- Page: 9 ----------------------
ISO/IEC 19762-1:2005(E)
01.01.31
least significant bit
LSB
bit with the lowest binary value in a group of matching bits
NOTE A byte is an example of a group of matching bits.
01.01.32
most significant bit
MSB
bit with the highest binary value in a group of matching bits
NOTE A byte is an example of a group of matching bits.
01.01.33
binary coded decimal
BCD
binary-coded decimal representation
representation of decimal numbers in binary form using a group of four bits to represent an individual digit
(0-9)
EXAMPLE In the binary-coded decimal notation that uses the weights 8-4-2-1, the decimal numeral 23 is
represented by 0010 0011 as compared to its representation 10111 in the binary system.
01.01.34
numeric
denoting a character set that includes only numbers
cf. alphanumeric
01.01.35
alphanumeric
pertaining to data that consist of both letters and digits, and may contain other characters such as punctuation
marks or pertaining to processes and functional units that use alphanumeric data
01.01.36
redundancy(1)
〈functional unit〉 existence of a means for improving reliability in addition to the essential set of means for
performing a required function
01.01.37
redundancy(2)
characteristic whereby information is repeated to increase the probability of its being read or communicated
successfully
NOTE In a bar code symbol the height of the bars provides vertical redundancy by enabling multiple scan paths to
exist through the symbol, only one of which is necessary in theory for a complete decode.
01.01.38
scan(1), noun
single pass of a scanning beam over a symbol or a portion of a symbol
01.01.39
scan(2), noun
single image capture with an image capture device
01.01.40
scan(1), verb
systematically examine data
© ISO/IEC 2005 – All rights reserved 5

---------------------- Page: 10 ----------------------
ISO/IEC 19762-1:2005(E)
01.01.41
scan(2), verb
pass a scanning beam over a symbol or a portion of a symbol
01.01.42
scan(3), verb
capture a single image with an image capture device
01.01.43
orientation
machine-readable medium alignment with respect to the reader expressed in three-dimensional angular
terms, with range of variation expressed in terms of skew, pitch and roll
01.01.44
range
maximum distance at which a reading device can read a machine-readable medium of given characteristics
cf. reading distance
NOTE In terms of optically readable media, range is equal to the sum of optical throw and depth of field.
01.01.45
verification
comparing an activity, a process, or a product with the corresponding requirements or specifications
01.01.46
tolerance
maximum permissible deviation of a system parameter value, caused by any system or environmental
influence or impact
NOTE 1 Tolerance is usually expressed in parts per million (ppm).
NOTE 2 Tolerances are specified for a number of radio frequency parameters, including carrier frequencies sub-
carriers, bit clocks and symbol clocks.
01.01.47
code element
result of applying a code to an element of a coded set
[ISO/IEC 2382-4 04.02.04]
01.01.48
software
〈telecommunication〉 computer programs, procedures, rules and any associated documentation pertaining to
the operation of equipment, a telecommunication network or other system
[IEC 60050-702 702-09-02]
01.01.49
field of view(1)
FoV
length of bar code that can be read in one scan
NOTE For wand scanners and others where the scanner beam has to be manually moved across the symbol field of
view is a function of the operator's ability to scan smoothly.
6 © ISO/IEC 2005 – All rights reserved

---------------------- Page: 11 ----------------------
ISO/IEC 19762-1:2005(E)
01.01.50
field of view(2)
FoV
capture field/area/zone
zone surrounding a reader/interrogator in which the reader/interrogator is capable of communicating with a
transponder
01.01.51
misread
condition that exists when the data retrieved by the reader/interrogator is different from the corresponding
data within the medium
01.01.52
automatic identification system
system for achieving accurate and unambiguous identification of a data bearing label, tag, transponder or a
natural/prescribed feature, the data or feature being interrogated by means of a system appropriate source
01.01.53
character set
finite set of characters that is complete for a given purpose
NOTE ASCII is an example of a character set.
01.01.54
nominal
value at which a system is designed to assure optimal operation
01.01.55
symbology identifier
sequence of characters generated by the decoder and prefixed to the decoded data transmitted by the
decoder, that identifies the symbology from which the data has been decoded
01.01.56
conventional printing process
printing process typically using a printing plate (or cylinder) and wet ink to produce multiple impressions of an
image on a substrate
NOTE Lithography, letterpress, flexography, photogravure, screen process, and hot foil stamping are examples of
conventional printing processes.
01.01.57
leading zeros
zeros at the left of a number
01.01.58
leading zero
〈positional notation〉 a zero in a more significant digit place than the digit place of the most significant nonzero
digit of a numeral
01.01.59
concatenation
facility to link together specific items of data held in data carriers, to form a single file or field of data
01.01.60
structured append
linking together in a predetermined sequence of the data contained in two or more symbols, enabling the data
to be handled as a single message
cf. concatenation
© ISO/IEC 2005 – All rights reserved 7

---------------------- Page: 12 ----------------------
ISO/IEC 19762-1:2005(E)
01.01.61
byte(1)
string that consists of a number of bits, treated as a unit, and usually representing a character or a part of a
character
[ISO/IEC 2382-4:1999 04.05.08]
01.01.62
byte(2)
sequential series of bits comprising on
...