Patent ID: 7540424
Filing Date: 2009-06-02
Classification: G06K,G06Q

Abstract:
1. An omni-directional image capturing and processing based bar code symbol reading system comprising: a housing of compact construction having an imaging window formed in said housing; and a plurality of coplanar illumination and imaging subsystems, disposed in said housing, for generating a plurality of coplanar light illumination beams (PLIBs) and field of views (FOVs), that are projected through and intersect above said imaging window to generate a complex of linear-imaging planes within a 3D imaging volume defined above said imaging window, for omni-directional imagine of objects passed through said 3D imaging volume, wherein each said coplanar illumination and imaging subsystem includes an array of coherent light sources, and said plurality of coplanar light illumination beams (PLIBs) are generated by said array of coherent light sources.