Patent ID: 7841532

Claim:
A portable bar code reading device of the type which may be moved between various distances, orientations, and angles with respect to a substrate that carries a bar code symbol, said portable bar code reading device comprising: an imaging assembly, said imaging assembly having a two dimensional solid state image sensor and an optical assembly focusing an image onto said two dimensional solid state image sensor, wherein said portable bar code reading device has a user-initiated operating mode in which said portable bar code reading device, in response to a trigger actuation (a) obtains an area electronic representation having a first pixel resolution, said area electronic representation including a representation of said substrate carrying said bar code symbol; (b) processes said area electronic representation obtained in step (a) to decode a decodable bar code symbol representation represented in said area electronic representation obtained in step (a); (c) processes an area electronic representation obtained by said bar code reading device having said first pixel resolution into such form that a processed area electronic representation is produced having a second pixel resolution that is different from said first pixel resolution; and (d) outputs to an output destination said processed area electronic representation produced at step (c) that includes a second pixel resolution different from said first pixel resolution.