Patent ID: 8526720

Claim:
A terminal comprising: a color image sensor array having an associated color filter pattern; an optical imaging lens for focusing an image onto the image sensor array; wherein the terminal is operative for capture of a color frame of image data utilizing the color image sensor array; wherein the terminal is further operative for converting color image data of the frame to monochrome image data while maintaining color image data in a memory store; wherein the terminal is further operative for searching for a bar code symbol finder pattern utilizing the monochrome image data; wherein the terminal is further operative so that responsively to finding a color bar code symbol finder pattern utilizing the monochrome image data, the terminal utilizes the color image data for attempting to decode a color bar code symbol; wherein the terminal is further operative so that responsively to finding a monochrome bar code symbol finder pattern utilizing the monochrome image data, the terminal utilizes the monochrome image data for attempting to decode a monochrome bar code symbol.