Patent ID: 8100331

Claim:
A digital image capture and processing system comprising: a housing having an imaging window with an illumination-focusing lens structure integrated within said imaging window; a printed circuit (PC) board mounted in said housing, and having a front surface and a rear surface and a light transmission aperture formed centrally through said PC board; an image formation and detection subsystem, disposed in said housing, and having image formation optics for projecting a field of view (FOV) through said imaging window and upon an object within said FOV, and an area-type image detection array, mounted on the rear surface of said PC board, for forming and detecting one or more 2D digital images of the object during object illumination and imaging operations; a first FOV folding mirror supported above the rear surface of said PC board over said light transmission aperture, and a second FOV folding mirror supported above the rear surface of said PC board and over said area-type image detection array, for projecting said FOV off said first and second FOV folding mirrors and through said light transmission aperture and said imaging window, and towards the object within said FOV outside of said housing; and a LED-based illumination subsystem, disposed in said housing, including a linear array of light emitting diodes (LEDs) mounted on the front surface of said PC board, adjacent said light transmission aperture, for generating and projecting a field of illumination through said imaging window and within said FOV, towards the object within said FOV outside of said housing, so that illumination reflected and/or scattered off the object is retransmitted through said imaging window, reflected off said first and second FOV folding mirrors, and detected by said area-type image detection array.