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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2011
Yoshiya Yamada, Shizuoka, JP;
Hitoshi Iizaka, Shizuoka, JP;
Hidemi Mihara, Shizuoka, JP;
Osamu Tsuchiya, Shizuoka, JP;
Hidehiro Naito, Shizuoka, JP;
Yoshiya Yamada, Shizuoka, JP;
Hitoshi Iizaka, Shizuoka, JP;
Hidemi Mihara, Shizuoka, JP;
Osamu Tsuchiya, Shizuoka, JP;
Hidehiro Naito, Shizuoka, JP;
Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A housing is mounted on a counter on which a basket for containing a commodity to be purchased is placed and is disposed at a position where it confronts an operator. A read window confronting a read area of a code symbol attached to a commodity is disposed on the front of the housing, and an image pickup section including a CCD area sensor having, as an image pickup area, a read area of the code symbol is incorporated at the back of the read window. An LED light source irradiates illuminating light for illuminating the code symbol, which is necessary for the area CCD sensor to take an image of the code symbol. The LED light source has an optical axis nonparallel to a read optical axis of the area image pickup device and guides the illuminating light to the read area from a position above the area image pickup device.