Patent Document ID: 7784698
Application ID: 11980080
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A digital image capturing and processing system for automatically recognizing graphical intelligence graphically represented in digital images of objects, comprising: a system housing having an imaging window; a plurality of coplanar illumination and imaging stations, disposed in said system housing, for generating and projecting a plurality of coplanar illumination and imaging planes through said imaging window, and into a 3D imaging volume definable relative to said imaging window, so as to produce a complex of coplanar illumination and imaging planes for omni-directional digital imaging of an object passing through said 3D imaging volume, and generating digital linear images of said object as said object intersects coplanar illumination and imaging planes within said 3D imaging volume during system operation; and a digital image processor for processing said digital linear images and automatically recognizing graphic intelligence graphically represented in said digital linear images; wherein each said coplanar illumination and imaging station includes an illumination device for producing a planar illumination beam (PLIB), and a linear image sensing array providing a field of view (FOV) extending substantially along said PLIB so as to form one said coplanar illumination and imaging plane (PLIB/FOV) that is projected through said imaging window and into said 3D imaging volume, for capturing digital linear images of the object moving through said 3D imaging volume.