Patent ID: 8579197

Claim:
An arrangement for electro-optically processing indicia associated with products, comprising: a housing for supporting at least one window at which a product associated with an indicium is presented for processing; a number of imagers supported by the housing, each imager having a field of view and an array of sensors for capturing return light from the indicia through the at least one window; a stationary optical splitter for-splitting the field of view of at least one of the imagers into split subfields of view that extend through the at least one window over different regions of the product, and for making light received from a first subfield of view enters a first part of the field of view of the at least one of the imagers after changing the propagation direction of the light received from the first subfield of view at a surface of the stationary optical splitter and light received from a second subfield of view enters a second part of the field of view of the at least one of the imagers without impinging upon said surface of the stationary optical splitter; and a controller for processing the captured return light from at least one of the product regions that is in at least one of the split subfields of view.