Patent Document ID: 8528818
Application ID: 12748076
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A hand held device comprising: an imaging assembly comprising a two dimensional imager; wherein said imaging assembly further includes imaging optics for focusing light reflected from a target onto said two dimensional imager; a processor communicatively coupled with said two dimensional imager; an actuator for manually initiating image capture, the hand held device being adapted so that in response to said actuator being actuated by a user, said hand held device obtains an image for processing, said image for processing including imaging data; wherein said hand held device is further adapted so that said processing includes (a) processing said image according to a first process, wherein a result of said first process indicates whether a bar code symbol is represented in said image; and (b) subsequently determining whether a signature is represented in said image, wherein said determining step (b) is executed conditionally on the condition that a result of said processing step (a) indicates that a bar code symbol is not represented in said image; and wherein said hand held device is adapted to compress a represented signature conditionally responsively to a processing of said image.