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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2007
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 laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) based code symbol reader includes: a hand-supportable housing having a light transmission aperture; a linear image formation and detection module having a linear image detection array; and a planar laser illumination beam (PLIB) producing device having at least one visible laser diode (VLD) for producing a planar laser illumination beam (PLIB). The code symbol reader further includes an image grabber for grabbing digital linear images formed and detected by the image formation and detection module, an image data buffer for buffering the digital linear images grabbed by the image grabber and constructing a two-dimensional digital image from a series of buffered linear digital images, and an image processing computer for processing the two-dimensional digital image so as to read code symbols graphically represented in the two-dimensional digital image.