Patent ID: 7611059

Claim:
A code reading device comprising: a memory configured to store a first identification mark indicating that a code pattern is selected as a decoding target and a second identification mark indicating that a code pattern has been successfully decoded; a code pattern display device which, when a plurality of code patterns are read at a time in response to a code reading instruction, displays images of the code patterns; a selector which allows a user to arbitrarily select, on a display window that displays the images of the code patterns, whether or not each of the code patterns is selected as a decoding target; a notification device which noticeably displays, based on a user selection via the selector, the first identification mark superimposed on the image of a code pattern that has been selected as a decoding target; and a decoding processor which decodes each code pattern that has been selected as a decoding target when a decode instruction is received after the notification device noticeably displays the first identification mark, and which noticeably displays, based on a result of decoding, the second identification mark superimposed on the image of a code pattern that has been selected as a decoding target and has been successfully decoded.