Patent ID: 7596311

Claim:
A device for enabling camera viewing of characteristic features of an object in order to subsequently enable processing of signals related to viewed features, wherein a single camera having a field of view is arranged to carry out viewing of at least a first region and a second region of an object when the object is at an observation location, the camera viewing of the first region being in a first direction of viewing which is different from a second direction of viewing for the second region, wherein a first light source is located to provide a first direction of light to illuminate the first region of the object to assist the camera in viewing at said first region the contour of an object, and wherein a second light source is located to provide a second direction of light to illuminate the second region of the object in a direction different from the first direction of light from the first light source to assist the camera in viewing at said second region any identity feature located on the object, and wherein the first direction of light that illuminates the first region of the object intersects the second direction of light that illuminates the second region of the object.