Optical reader comprising illumination assembly and solid state image sensor

• US 20040262399A1
• Filed: 03/16/2004
• Published: 12/30/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/1994
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hand Held Products Incorporated (Honeywell International Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hand Held Products Incorporated (Honeywell International Inc.)
• Inventors: Longacre, Andrew Jr., Hussey, Robert M., Ehrhart, Michael A., Koziol, Thomas J., Parker, James A.
• Granted Patent: US 7,080,786 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/462.45
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 17/0022 arrangements or provisions for transferring data to distant stations, e.g. from a sensing device "transfer between computer elements G06F13/00 "; data-transmission H04L
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/06037 multi-dimensional coding
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 2207/1017 Programmable
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10544 by scanning of the records by radiation in the optical part of the electromagnetic spectrum
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10821 further details of bar or optical code scanning devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10851 Circuits for pulse shaping, amplifying, eliminating noise signals, checking the function of the sensing device basic electronic circuitry H03
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/14 using light without selection of wavelength, e.g. sensing reflected white light G06K7/10831 - G06K7/1097 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/1491 the method including a reconstruction step, e.g. stitching two pieces of bar code together to derive the full bar code

Abstract

A bar code reading device processing electronic representations in the decoding of bar code symbols, which includes an illumination assembly and a solid state image sensor. The bar code reading device may have improved reprogramming features and improved menuing features.

Claims

1. A method for operating a bar code reader system having a first hand held bar code reader, a second hand held bar code reader and a host processor, wherein both of said readers have memories, said method comprising the steps of:

(a) querying with use of said host processor programming data of said first hand held reader;

(b) receiving said programming data at said host processor;

(c) encoding with use of said host processor at least one bar code symbol, said at least one bar code symbol being encoded such that when said at least one bar code symbol is read by said second hand held bar code reader, said programming data originally included in said memory of said first bar code reader is loaded into said memory of said second hand held bar code reader;

(d) outputting said at least one bar code symbol encoded at step (b); and

(e) reading using said second hand held bar code reader said at least one bar code symbol output at step (d) so that said second hand held bar code reader is reprogrammed.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said querying step includes the step of querying with use of a nonintegrated host processor, nonintegral with respect to said first hand held bar code reader reprogramming data of said first hand held bar code reader.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said at least one bar code symbol is a single bar code symbol.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said at least one bar code symbol is a series of bar code symbols.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said at least one bar code symbol is a single two-dimensional bar code symbol.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein said outputting step includes the step of displaying said at least one bar code symbol.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein said outputting step includes the step of printing said at least one bar code symbol.

8-21. -21. (Cancelled without prejudice or disclaimer).