Patent ID: 7111787
Filing Date: 2006-09-26
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. A portable device comprising: an imaging assembly including a two-dimensional solid state image sensor and optics focusing an image onto said image sensor; a trigger; a portable housing encapsulating said solid state image sensor; a control circuit configured to operate in a mode in which said control circuit stores an image in response to a user-actuation of said trigger; wherein said control circuit is further configured to operate in a mode in which said control circuit sends said image to an external spaced apart device together with a set of executable instructions executable by said external spaced apart device, said executable instructions instructing said external spaced apart device to (a) decode a bar code symbol represented in said image to generate a decoded-out message; and (b) transmit back to said portable device said decoded-out message; and wherein said control circuit is further configured to receive from said external spaced apart device said decoded-out message decoded from said image sent by said control circuit to said external spaced apart device.