Patent ID: 8430316

Claim:
An imaging assembly adapted for reading a target object, the imaging assembly comprising: a scan engine comprising a sensor, focusing optics, and an imager, the scan engine having a scan engine field-of-view defining an area to be imaged by the imaging assembly; a housing internally lodging said scan engine and an illumination source, the illumination source adapted to project illumination from the housing; and a boot extending from said housing and made from non-transparent material operative to truncate light from the illumination source that projects towards the outside of said scan engine field-of-view while allowing light from the illumination source projecting towards said scan engine field-of-view to pass through an opening of the boot to form an illumination pattern from said illumination, the illumination pattern substantially conforming to a geometrical shape of said boot and specifying an outer boundary of said scan engine field-of-view with the illumination pattern having a shape substantially identical to the shape of said scan engine field-of-view.