Patent ID: 7156310
Filing Date: 2007-01-02
Classification: G02B,G06K,G07F

Abstract:
1. An automatically-activated bar code symbol reading system for carrying out bar code symbol reading operations, comprising: a hand-supportable housing; a manually-actuatable data transmission activation switch integrated with said hand-supportable housing; an automatically-activated laser scanning bar code symbol reading subsystem, disposed within said hand-supportable housing, for automatically producing a visible laser scanning pattern and repeatedly reading a bar code symbol on an object within a predetermined time period using said visible laser scanning pattern, and each instant said bar code symbol is read within said predetermined time period, automatically producing a symbol character data string representative of said read bar code symbol; a data transmission circuit, disposed in said hand-supportable housing, for transmitting, when activated by the manual actuation of said manually-actuatable data transmission activation switch, a selected one of said produced symbol character data strings to a host system or data storage device; and a system controller for controlling said data transmission circuit so that the symbol character data string, produced at substantially the same time when said symbol character data transmission activation switch is manually actuated, is transmitted to said host system or data storage device; and wherein said automatically-activated bar code symbol reading system further includes