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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2017
Applicant:
Symbol Technologies, Llc, Lincolnshire, IL (US);
Inventors:
Joseph J. DiVirgilio, Port Jefferson Station, NY (US);
Darran Michael Handshaw, Sound Beach, NY (US);
Assignee:
Symbol Technologies, LLC, Holtsville, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 7/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 7/10732 (2013.01); G06K 7/10881 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for switching an optical imaging reader between a hands-free mode and a handheld mode using a grip-enabling switch, which is actuated by a user's grip on the handle of the reader in order to switch from the hands-free mode to the handheld mode, and which switches from the handheld mode to the hands-free mode if the grip-enabling switch is no longer actuated.