Registers – Coded record sensors – Particular sensor structure
Reexamination Certificate
2007-10-09
2007-10-09
Stcyr, Daniel (Department: 2876)
Registers
Coded record sensors
Particular sensor structure
C235S462100, C235S472010, C235S472020
Reexamination Certificate
active
10630358
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed is an automatically-activated wireless code symbol reading system comprising a bar code symbol reading mechanism contained within a hand-supportable housing having a manually-activatable data transmission switch. During symbol reading operations, the bar code symbol reading mechanism automatically generates a visible laser scanning pattern for repeatedly reading one or more bar code symbols on an object during a bar code symbol reading cycle, and automatically generating a new symbol character data string in response to each bar code symbol read thereby. During system operation, the user visually aligns the visible laser scanning pattern with a particular bar code symbol on an object (e.g. product, bar code menu, etc.) so that the bar code symbol is scanned, detected and decoded in a cyclical manner. Each time the scanned bar code symbol is successfully read during a bar code symbol reading cycle, a new bar code symbol character string is produced, while an indicator light on the hand-supportable housing is actively driven. During the bar code symbol reading cycle, the user actuates the data transmission switch producing a data transmission control activation signal and enabling a currently or subsequently produced symbol character data string to be automatically selected and transmitted to the host system. By virtue of the present invention, automatically-activated hand-supportable bar code symbol readers are now able to accurately read, in an unprecedented manner, bar code symbols on bar code menus, consumer products positioned in crowded point-of-sale environments, and other objects requiring automatic identification and/or information access.
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Au Ka Man
Blake Robert
Bonanno John
Byun Sung
Colavito Stephen J.
Labaze Edwyn
Metrologic Instruments Inc.
Perkowski, Esq., P.C Thomas J.
Stcyr Daniel
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