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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2006
Constantine J. Tsikos, Voorhees, NJ (US);
C. Harry Knowles, Moorestown, NJ (US);
Xiaoxun Zhu, Marlton, NJ (US);
Michael D. Schnee, Aston, PA (US);
Ka Man AU, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Allan Wirth, Bedford, MA (US);
Timothy A. Good, Clementon, NJ (US);
Andrew Jankevics, Westford, MA (US);
Sankar Ghosh, Glenolden, PA (US);
Charles A. Naylor, Sewell, NJ (US);
Thomas Amundsen, Turnersville, NJ (US);
Robert Blake, Woodbury Heights, NJ (US);
William Svedas, Deptford, NJ (US);
Shawn Defoney, Runnemede, NJ (US);
Edward Skypala, Blackwood, NJ (US);
Pirooz Vatan, Wilmington, MA (US);
Russell Joseph Dobbs, Cherry Hill, NJ (US);
George Kolis, Pennsauken, NJ (US);
Mark C. Schmidt, Williamstown, NJ (US);
Jeffery Yorsz, Winchester, MA (US);
Patrick A. Giordano, Blackwood, NJ (US);
Stephen J. Colavito, Brookhaven, PA (US);
David W. Wilz, Sr., Sewell, NJ (US);
Barry E. Schwartz, Haddonfield, NJ (US);
Steven Y. Kim, Cambridge, MA (US);
Dale Fisher, Voorhees, NJ (US);
Jon Van Tassell, Winchester, MA (US);
Constantine J. Tsikos, Voorhees, NJ (US);
C. Harry Knowles, Moorestown, NJ (US);
Xiaoxun Zhu, Marlton, NJ (US);
Michael D. Schnee, Aston, PA (US);
Ka Man Au, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Allan Wirth, Bedford, MA (US);
Timothy A. Good, Clementon, NJ (US);
Andrew Jankevics, Westford, MA (US);
Sankar Ghosh, Glenolden, PA (US);
Charles A. Naylor, Sewell, NJ (US);
Thomas Amundsen, Turnersville, NJ (US);
Robert Blake, Woodbury Heights, NJ (US);
William Svedas, Deptford, NJ (US);
Shawn Defoney, Runnemede, NJ (US);
Edward Skypala, Blackwood, NJ (US);
Pirooz Vatan, Wilmington, MA (US);
Russell Joseph Dobbs, Cherry Hill, NJ (US);
George Kolis, Pennsauken, NJ (US);
Mark C. Schmidt, Williamstown, NJ (US);
Jeffery Yorsz, Winchester, MA (US);
Patrick A. Giordano, Blackwood, NJ (US);
Stephen J. Colavito, Brookhaven, PA (US);
David W. Wilz, Sr., Sewell, NJ (US);
Barry E. Schwartz, Haddonfield, NJ (US);
Steven Y. Kim, Cambridge, MA (US);
Dale Fisher, Voorhees, NJ (US);
Jon Van Tassell, Winchester, MA (US);
Metrologic Instruments, Inc., Blackwood, NJ (US);
Abstract
A hand-supportable planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) based device having hand-supportable housing with a light transmission aperture. A linear image formation and detection (IFD) module is mounted within the housing, and has a linear array of image detection elements and also image formation optics with a field of view (FOV). When an object is presented within the FOV, the FOV focuses a linear image of the object onto the linear array. At least one planar laser illumination module (PLIM) is mounted on the support platform, with the linear IFD module, and produces a planar laser illumination beam (PLIB) spatially aligned with respect to the FOV and arranged in a coplanar relationship with at least a portion of the FOV. A laser beam despeckling mechanism is integrated in the device, for reducing speckle-pattern noise observed the linear digital images formed and detected at the linear array of image detection elements.