Patent ID: 8967474
Filing Date: 2015-03-03
Classification: G06K,G07G

Abstract:
1. A scanning system for reading optical codes on items being passed via a transport mechanism through a read volume of the system, comprising a front arch section and a rear arch section, each arch section having (a) first and second lateral leg sections, and (b) a top arch section connected to a top portion of each of the first and second lateral leg sections and spanning therebetween over a width of the transport mechanism, wherein the front arch section and the second arch section are arranged with lower portions of the front arch lateral leg sections adjacent to lower portions of the rear arch lateral leg sections, wherein the front arch section is slanted forwardly and the rear arch section is slanted rearwardly; a plurality of readers disposed in the top arch sections and the lateral leg sections for reading an optical code on any of five sides of a six-sided box-shaped item being passed through a read region formed by the arch sections.