Patent ID: 8403216

Claim:
A code reading apparatus comprising: an image capturing unit configured to capture an image picked up by an imaging unit; a first reading unit configured to detect one of an image of a code symbol and an image of benefit indication from the image captured by the image capturing unit and read commodity information corresponding to the code symbol or benefit information corresponding to the benefit indication from the detected image; a timer configured to time a predetermined time; a first determination unit configured to determine whether another one of the image of the code symbol and the image of benefit indication, not detected yet by the first reading unit, is detected; a second determination unit configured to determine whether the predetermined time is elapsed; a second reading unit configured to cause, until the predetermined time is elapsed after the first reading unit reads the one of the commodity information and the benefit information, until detecting the other image not detected yet, the image capturing unit to capture the image and read, if the other image is detected, the other of the commodity information and the benefit information from the detected other image; and an information output unit configured to output the information read by the second reading unit together with the information read by the first reading unit.