TERMINAL OPERATIVE FOR STORING FRAME OF IMAGE DATA

• US 20120320235A1
• Filed: 06/17/2011
• Published: 12/20/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/17/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hand Held Products Incorporated (Honeywell International Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hand Held Products Incorporated (Honeywell International Inc.)
• Inventors: Winegar, Keith F.
• Granted Patent: US 8,628,016 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/231.99
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10722 Photodetector array or CCD scanning
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/1417 2D bar codes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/2137 with temporary storage before final recording, e.g. in a frame buffer
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/2141 in a multi-frame buffer
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/215 Recording a sequence of still pictures, e.g. burst mode
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/631 Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/633 for displaying additional information relating to control or operation of the camera

Abstract

There is set forth herein an imaging terminal having a picture taking mode of operation. In the picture taking mode of operation the terminal can capture a frame of image data into a buffer memory prior to activation of a trigger signal. The terminal can be operative so that responsively to activation of a trigger signal, the terminal transmits one or more frames of the buffer memory to a storage memory. The terminal can further be operative so that responsively to activation of a trigger signal an operator is presented with indicators of frames captured both prior to and subsequent to the activation of the trigger signal. The terminal can be operative so that an operator can select for archiving one or more frame. The one or more frame can comprise one or more frame captured prior to activation of a trigger signal and one or more frame captured subsequent to activation of a trigger signal.

Claims

1. A terminal comprising:

an imaging assembly comprising an image sensor pixel array and an imaging lens focusing an image on the image sensor pixel array;

a hand held housing encapsulating the image sensor pixel array;

a display extending in a display plane disposed on the hand held housing;

a buffer memory;

a storage memory;

wherein the terminal is operative so that prior to activation of a trigger signal, the terminal captures into the buffer memory a plurality of frames of image data, the buffer memory buffering the plurality of frames;

wherein the terminal is configured so that subsequently to activation of a trigger signal the terminal is operative to display one or more indicator corresponding to one or more frame of the plurality of frames captured prior to the time of activation of the trigger signal;

wherein the terminal responsively to selection of a certain indicator of the one or more indicator by an operator archives the frame corresponding to the certain indicator.

2. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the terminal responsively to the activation of the trigger signal captures in the buffer memory K frames, the K frames being captured subsequent to the time of activation of a trigger signal.

3. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the terminal responsively to the activation of the trigger signal transmits one or more frames buffered in the buffer memory into the storage memory.

4. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the terminal when the terminal archives the frame the terminal retains the frame in the storage memory and erases non-selected frames from the storage memory.

5. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the terminal for display of the one or more indicator formats the one or more frame without transmitting the one or more frame into storage memory.

6. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the terminal when the terminal archives the frame, the terminal stores the frame into the storage memory.

7. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the terminal is operative to display the one or more indicator responsively to the activation of a trigger signal.

8. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the terminal is operative to attempt to decode a decodable indicia a frame of the plurality of frames.

9. A terminal comprising:

a first imaging assembly having a first imaging axis, a first image sensor pixel array, and an imaging lens focusing light on the image sensor pixel array;

a second imaging assembly having a second imaging axis, a second image sensor pixel array, and an imaging lens focusing light on the second image sensor pixel array;

a hand held housing encapsulating the first image sensor pixel array and the second image sensor pixel array;

a display extending in a display plane disposed on the hand held housing;

a buffer memory;

a storage memory;

wherein the terminal is operative so that prior to activation of a trigger signal the terminal captures into the buffer memory a plurality of frames of image data, the buffer memory buffering the plurality of frames, the plurality of frames being frames captured utilizing the first imaging assembly and the second imaging assembly;

wherein the terminal is configured so that subsequently to activation of a trigger signal the terminal is operative to display a plurality of indicators corresponding a set of frames captured prior to the time of activation of the trigger signal, the set of frames including one or more frame captured utilizing the first imaging assembly and one or more frame captured utilizing the second imaging assembly;

wherein the terminal responsively to selection of a certain indicator of the one or more indicator by an operator archives the frame corresponding to the certain indicator.

10. The terminal of claim 9, wherein the terminal when the terminal archives the frame, the terminal retains a selected frame in the storage memory and erases non-selected frames from the storage memory.

11. The terminal of claim 9, wherein the terminal responsively to activation of the trigger signal transmits one or more frame buffered in the buffer memory into the storage memory.

12. The terminal of claim 9, wherein the terminal when the terminal archives the frame, stores the frame into the storage memory.

13. The terminal of claim 9, wherein the terminal is adapted so that the first imaging axis extends forward from the terminal toward a target wherein the second imaging axis extends downward toward from the terminal toward a target.

14. The terminal of claim 9, wherein the first imaging axis and the second imaging axis are in diverging relation.

15. The terminal of claim 9, wherein the first imaging axis and the second imaging axis are in converging relation.

16. The terminal of claim 9, wherein the terminal is operative to display the one or more indicator responsively to the activation of the trigger signal.

17. The terminal of claim 9, wherein the terminal is operative to attempt to decode a decodable indicia a frame of the plurality of frames.

18. A terminal comprising:

a first imaging assembly comprising a first image sensor pixel array and an imaging lens focusing an image on the image sensor pixel array;

a hand held housing encapsulating the first image sensor pixel array;

a buffer memory;

a storage memory;

wherein the terminal is operative so that prior to activation of a trigger signal, the terminal captures into the buffer memory a plurality of frames of image data, the buffer memory buffering the plurality of frames;

wherein the terminal is operative so that responsively to activation of the trigger signal the terminal transmits one or more frame of the plurality of frames to the storage memory.

19. The terminal of claim 18, wherein responsively to activation of the trigger signal, the terminal captures into the buffer memory K frames, the K frames being frames captured subsequent to the activation of the trigger signal.

20. The terminal of claim 18, wherein responsively to the activation of the trigger signal the terminal transmits from the buffer memory to the storage memory one or more frame captured prior to the time of the activation of the trigger signal and one or more frame captured subject to the activation of the trigger signal.

21. The terminal of claim 18, wherein the terminal is operative to attempt to decode a decodable indicia a frame of the plurality of frames.