Patent ID: 7469836

Claim:
A hand-held laser scanning device for scanning an interface surface provided on a product item, the interface surface having visible information relating to the product item and a plurality of tags disposed thereon, each tag containing coded data indicative of an identity of the product item and a plurality of locations on the interface surface, and at least some of the tags being coincident with the visible information, the scanning device comprising: (a) a housing; (b) a laser for emitting a scanning beam from the housing and exposing at least one of the plurality of tags when the product item is provided in a sensing region; (c) a sensor for sensing the coded data contained in the at least one exposed tag; and (d) a processor for determining, using at least some of the sensed coded data, product identity data indicative of the identity of the product item and location data indicative of a location of the exposed tag on the interface surface.