Patent ID: 8030630

Claim:
An imaging system with safety control for imaging target objects comprising: a scanning arrangement comprising a sensor assembly for capturing an image from a target object, the sensor assembly having a field-of-view focused by an optical arrangement onto a sensor array located within the sensor assembly; and an illumination assembly comprising a housing, illumination source, light pipe, and projection lens, the illumination assembly providing light energy toward the sensor assembly field-of-view for illuminating the target object to be imaged on the sensor array; the light pipe comprising a multi-walled tapered body having an input face at a first end of said body, the input face being juxtaposed with the illumination source and an output face at a second end of said body opposite said first end, the input face being smaller in size than said output face, the walls of said body creating mirrored images of the illumination source that redistribute the amount of light energy directed at any particular area of the human eyes.