Patent ID: 7679804

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a laser to emit a beam of light; a MEMS device having a mirror to reflect the beam of light emitted by the laser, the MEMS device having a resonant frequency associated therewith; a scan line generator circuit to provide a drive signal to the MEMS device to move the mirror and direct the reflected beam of light in a motion responsive to the drive signal to scan a target; and a target imager circuit to receive a reflectance profile of the target in response to the scan to decode information represented by the target; wherein the drive signal provided to the MEMS device causes the MEMS device to operate in a non-resonant mode, and wherein the drive signal provided to the MEMS device, in response to an initial scan of a target, is capable of adapting to increase readability of the target, or to reduce a time to read the target, or combinations thereof, in a subsequent scan by driving the MEMS device in a non-resonant mode.