Patent ID: 7341190

Claim:
An article of manufacture comprising: a machine-readable medium that provides instructions, including instructions to: process a single received trigger signal communicated from a triggering device in response to a location of a component in an automated identification system; capture multiple images of at least a portion of a first surface of the component in response to the received trigger signal, the multiple images comprising a series of images including a first two-dimensional image and at least one subsequent two-dimensional image; capture multiple images of at least a portion of a second surface of the component in response to the received trigger signal, the multiple images comprising a series of images including a first two-dimensional image and at least one subsequent two-dimensional image; store the multiple images in a memory; and process the images of one or both of the first surface and the second surface to identify and read a symbol code, if any, contained within at least one or a combination of two or more of the images.