Patent ID: 9436860
Filing Date: 2016-09-06
CPC Classification: G06K

Claim Text:
1. An optical indicia reading apparatus comprising: a microprocessor; a memory; a plurality of wafer level camera (WLC) modules, each WLC module of said plurality of WLC modules comprising an image sensor and a focusing lens; wherein each WLC module of said plurality of WLC modules is configured to output a signal representative of light incident on said image sensor; wherein an optical axis of a first WLC module of said plurality of WLC modules is spatially disposed relatively to an optical axis of a second WLC module of said plurality of WLC modules so that a field of view (FOV) of said first WLC module partially overlaps with a FOV of said second WLC module by less than 50% of their respective FOVs; wherein said optical indicia reading apparatus is configured to generate a single image frame comprising an image of decodable indicia by overlapping and processing two or more signals of a plurality of signals outputted by said plurality of WLC modules to yield the single image frame; wherein said optical indicia reading apparatus is further configured to store said single image frame in said memory; and wherein said optical indicia reading apparatus is further configured to output at least one of: said single image frame, decoded message corresponding to said decodable indicia.