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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2009
Filed:
Jul. 20, 2006
Constantine J. Tsikos, Voorhees, NJ (US);
Michael D. Schnee, Aston, PA (US);
Xiaoxun Zhu, Marlton, NJ (US);
Thomas Amundsen, Turnersville, NJ (US);
Charles A. Naylor, Sewell, NJ (US);
Russell Joseph Dobbs, Cherry Hill, NJ (US);
Carl Harry Knowles, Moorestown, NJ (US);
Constantine J. Tsikos, Voorhees, NJ (US);
Michael D. Schnee, Aston, PA (US);
Xiaoxun Zhu, Marlton, NJ (US);
Thomas Amundsen, Turnersville, NJ (US);
Charles A. Naylor, Sewell, NJ (US);
Russell Joseph Dobbs, Cherry Hill, NJ (US);
Carl Harry Knowles, Moorestown, NJ (US);
Metrologic Instruments, Inc., Blackwood, NJ (US);
Abstract
A hand-supportable planar illumination and imaging (PLIIM) based device having a hand-supportable housing with a light transmission aperture. A linear image formation and detection (IFD) module mounted on the support platform in the housing, and has a linear array of image detection elements and also image formation optics having a field of view (FOV) projectable through the light transmission aperture. When an object is presented in the FOV for illumination and imaging, the FOV focuses a linear image of the object onto the linear array of image detection elements. A plurality of planar illumination modules (PLIMs) are arranged in a rectilinear manner, and produce a planar illumination beam (PLIB) that is spatially aligned with respect to the FOV and arranged in a coplanar relationship with at least a portion of the FOV. Each PLIM includes a visible light emitting diode (LED) and beam forming optics for producing the PLIB.