Patent ID: 8910872

Claim:
A reader for electro-optically imaging targets, comprising: a housing having a front end region having boundary walls bounding a passage; a solid-state imager supported by the housing, for capturing return light along an optical path through the passage over a field of view from a target during an exposure time period, and for generating an electrical signal indicative of the captured light; a controller supported by the housing, for processing the electrical signal into data indicative of the target being imaged; an illumination light assembly supported back in the housing along the optical path away from the boundary walls of the housing and operatively connected to the controller, for projecting illumination light along the optical path through the passage to illuminate the target, the boundary walls of the housing for clipping the illumination light to form on the target a two-dimensional aiming light distribution that visually indicates the entire periphery of the field of view to assist in positioning the target entirely within the field of view; and wherein the controller is further configured to turn on the illumination light at least during part of the exposure time period.