HEND-HELD DEVICE FOR SCANNING AND TRANSFERRING INTO A COMPUTER APPLICATION
First Claim
1. A hand-held device for scanning and subsequent transfer, said hand-held device comprising:
- (a) an elongated housing having a proximal end portion and a distal end portion and capable of being gripped by a hand of a user;
(b) a microprocessor and associated support circuitry physically integrated into an interior volume of said housing;
(c) an optical scanning head physically integrated into said proximal end portion of said housing and operatively connected to said microprocessor and associated support circuitry;
(d) a data transfer interface component physically integrated into said interior volume of said housing and operatively connected to said microprocessor and associated support circuitry; and
(e) an electronic storage memory physically integrated into an interior volume of said housing and operatively connected to said microprocessor and associated support circuitry.
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Abstract
A hand-held device for scanning and subsequent transferring. The hand-held device has an optical scanning head integrated at a proximal end portion of a housing of the device, and a data transfer interface component integrated within the housing of the device. Displayed, printed, or written information may be read from a scannable medium by manually moving (or fixedly positioning) a proximal end of the hand-held device across (or on) the scannable medium over the information. The read information is electronically stored within the hand-held device, and the stored information may be transferred into a data field, selected by a user of the hand-held device, of a software application running on a separate processor-based apparatus.
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54 Claims
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1. A hand-held device for scanning and subsequent transfer, said hand-held device comprising:
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(a) an elongated housing having a proximal end portion and a distal end portion and capable of being gripped by a hand of a user; (b) a microprocessor and associated support circuitry physically integrated into an interior volume of said housing; (c) an optical scanning head physically integrated into said proximal end portion of said housing and operatively connected to said microprocessor and associated support circuitry; (d) a data transfer interface component physically integrated into said interior volume of said housing and operatively connected to said microprocessor and associated support circuitry; and (e) an electronic storage memory physically integrated into an interior volume of said housing and operatively connected to said microprocessor and associated support circuitry. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. A hand-held apparatus capable of being gripped by a hand of a user, said apparatus comprising:
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(a) means for reading displayed, printed, or written information from a scannable medium in response to manually moving a proximal end of said hand-held apparatus across said scannable medium over said information; (b) means for storing said read information in said hand-held apparatus; and (c) means for transferring said stored information into a data field of a software application program running on a processor-based apparatus in response to pressing a distal activation button. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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41. A hand-held apparatus capable of being gripped by a hand of a user, said apparatus comprising:
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(a) means for reading displayed, printed, or written information from a scannable medium in response to manually positioning a proximal end of said hand-held apparatus over said information on said scannable medium at a fixed position; (b) means for storing said read information in said hand-held apparatus; and (c) means for transferring said stored information into a data field of a software application program running on a processor-based apparatus in response to manually positioning a distal end of said hand-held apparatus onto a touchscreen surface in association with said processor-based apparatus at a fixed position corresponding to said data field. - View Dependent Claims (42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54)
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- 47. The apparatus of claim 47 further comprising means for activating said means for transferring.
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