Patent ID: 7296751

Claim:
An optical reader comprising: a printed circuit board; a image sensor mounted on said printed circuit board, said image sensor having a field of view, said image sensor adapted to generate an electrical signal representative of the field of view of said image sensor; a signal processing circuit disposed to receive said electrical signal from said image sensor, said signal processing circuit mounted on said printed circuit board; an image capture circuit adapted to receive electrical signal from said signal processing circuit and store said electrical signal, said image capture circuit mounted on said printed circuit board; an image decoding and/or recognition circuit coupled to said image capture circuit, said image decoding and/or recognition circuit mounted on said printed circuit board; at least one light source mounted on said printed circuit board, said at least one light source disposed to illuminate at least a portion of the field of view of said image sensor; and a control circuit coupled to said image sensor wherein said control circuit is adapted to control the operation of said image sensor.