Patent ID: 8523076

Claim:
A laser scanning bar code symbol reading system comprising: a system housing having a vertical housing section having a vertical scanning window and a horizontal housing section having a horizontal scanning window; a laser scanning subsystem disposed in said system housing; wherein said laser scanning subsystem employs multiple off-center lasers directed onto an irregular multi-sided scanning polygon rotating about an axis of rotation, and producing a non-uniform laser scanning raster pattern over a total sweep of approximately 180 degrees of polygon rotation, and covering a scanning region including a center scanning region with a first plurality of scanning lines, two mid scanning regions with a second plurality of scanning lines, and far left and right scanning regions each having a third plurality of scanning lines, to support high density, mid density, and low density scanning over said 180 degrees scanning region; wherein said multi-sided scanning polygon has multiple scanning surfaces and multiple interior angles, wherein said interior angles between said multiple scanning surfaces are not all equal; and a plurality of scanning pattern folding mirrors, for folding said non-uniform laser scanning raster pattern and generating and projecting a plurality of laser scanning planes through said vertical and horizontal scanning windows, which intersect within a 3D scanning volume defined between said vertical and horizontal scanning windows and provide an omni-directional laser scanning pattern within said 3D scanning volume, for scanning one or more objects within said 3D scanning volume and producing scan data for decode processing.