Patent ID: 7083098

Claim:
A reader for electro-optically reading indicia, comprising: a) a housing having a window past which relative motion between the window and the indicia is conducted along a direction during reading; b) a solid-state imager in the housing and including an array of addressable image sensors for capturing light through the window from the indicia over a field of view during the reading, the array having a subarray of the addressable image sensors for capturing light through a section of the window from the indicia at a region-of-interest (ROI) within the field of view, the ROI including a plurality of regions spaced apart of one another; and c) a sequencer for addressing the sensors in each region, one region at a time, to detect the direction of the relative motion prior to the reading to insure that the indicia is located entirely within the field of view during the reading by the array.