Patent ID: 8083146

Claim:
An optical code reading system comprising: an imaging engine having: an illuminating assembly for illuminating a potential target area; an imaging assembly including: an imaging sensor for acquiring a native image of a potential target area; and circuitry for converting the native image of a potential target area to a data signal and outputting the data signal, wherein the data signal includes potential target area data indicative of a low resolution representation of the native image and a high resolution representation of the native image; and at least one processor comprising means for receiving the data signal and separating the potential target area data included within the data signal into at least a first group of pixels indicative of the low resolution representation of the native image and a second group of pixels indicative of the high resolution representation of the native image; and wherein the at least one processor includes: a first processor comprising means for outputting the first group of pixels indicative of the low resolution representation of the native image and the second group of pixels indicative of the high resolution representation of the native image, and a second processor comprising means for receiving from the first processor the first group of pixels indicative of the low resolution representation of the native image and the second group of pixels indicative of the high resolution representation of the native image output by the first processor; and wherein the first processor is an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) and the second processor is a general purpose programmable circuit.