Patent ID: 8167209

Claim:
An imaging-based reader for imaging target objects, the imaging based reader comprising: a housing supporting one or more transparent protective windows, the housing and one or more transparent protective windows defining an interior region; a least one imager located within said interior region, the imager comprising illumination and imaging optics, the illumination and imaging optics forming a field of view for imaging a target object within the field of view; said imager comprising a memory and a controller for acquiring a captured image within an imager field of view; confirming suitability based on blur of the captured image by decoding a 2D bar code in said captured image; and wherein the reader is a hand held reader having a user controlled actuator that signals the controller to capture an image and a feedback signal is conveyed to the user in the event the controller is unable to decode a 2D barcode and to store some or all of the captured image in a region of the 2D bar code in said memory only if the suitability of the captured image is confirmed.