Patent ID: 7780086
Filing Date: 2010-08-24
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. A reader for electro-optically reading indicia, comprising: a housing; a plurality of solid-state imagers at the housing, for capturing light from the indicia along different fields of view; a circuit board on which the imagers are commonly mounted for joint installation at, and joint removal from, the housing for ease of serviceability; wherein the housing has one window located in a generally horizontal plane, and another window located in a generally upright plane that intersects the generally horizontal plane; and wherein at least one of the imagers captures the light from the indicia through one of the windows following a folded optical path within the housing, the at least one of the imagers includes an illuminator for illuminating the indicia with illumination light at a solid angle that generally corresponds to the field of view of the at least one of the imagers.