Patent ID: 8640958

Claim:
An indicia reading terminal for imaging decodable indicia comprising a printed material visible in response to light in a non-visible spectrum, said terminal comprising: an illumination source for casting light onto the decodable indicia, the light having a wavelength in the non-visible spectrum, the wavelength causing light emitted from the printing material having an emission wavelength in a visible spectrum; an optical filter receiving the emitted light, the optical filter comprising a filter region having a pass-band matching the emission wavelength; an image sensor responsive to the emission wavelength in a manner permitting decoding of the decodable indicia, the image sensor comprising a plurality of pixels including one or more of a first subset of monochrome pixels and a second subset of color pixels; and a hand held housing in surrounding relation to one or more of the illumination source, the image sensor, and the optical filter, wherein the image sensor defines an optical axis on which is aligned the filter region of the optical filter, wherein said hand held terminal is operative for manual activation by a trigger depressed by an operator, wherein the trigger causes at least one attempt to decode the decodable indicia, and wherein said handheld terminal is operative to assign one or more of the pass-band of the optical filter and the wavelength of the light generated by the illumination source based the attempt to decode the decodable indicia.