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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 06, 2007
David M. Wilz, Sr., Sewell, NJ (US);
George B. Rockstein, Audobon, NJ (US);
Robert E. Blake, Woodbury Heights, NJ (US);
Mark Schmidt, Williamstown, NJ (US);
Garrett Russell, Newark, DE (US);
Donald T. Hudrick, Sicklerville, NJ (US);
Stephen J. Colavito, Brookhaven, PA (US);
Carl Harry Knowles, Moorestown, NJ (US);
David M. Wilz, Sr., Sewell, NJ (US);
George B. Rockstein, Audobon, NJ (US);
Robert E. Blake, Woodbury Heights, NJ (US);
Mark Schmidt, Williamstown, NJ (US);
Garrett Russell, Newark, DE (US);
Donald T. Hudrick, Sicklerville, NJ (US);
Stephen J. Colavito, Brookhaven, PA (US);
Carl Harry Knowles, Moorestown, NJ (US);
Metrologic Instruments, Inc., Blackwood, NJ (US);
Abstract
An automatically-activated code symbol reading system includes a hand-supportable housing having a light transmission aperture through which a field of view (FOV) passes; and an automatically-activated bar code symbol reading mechanism for repeatedly reading code symbols on an object in the FOV, within a predetermined time period, and in response to each new successful reading of the code symbols, producing a new symbol character data string representative of the read code symbol. A system control subsystem (i) automatically activates the automatically-activated bar code symbol reading mechanism in response to the detection of the object in at least a portion of the FOV, and (ii) automatically activates the data transmission circuit in response to the generation of the data transmission control activation signal so that a symbol character data string, produced currently with or immediately subsequent to the activation of the manually-activatable data transmission switch, is transmitted to a host system.