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Finger-mounted electro-optical scanner with on-board short range radio transmitter

  • US 6,010,071 A
  • Filed: 03/18/1997
  • Issued: 01/04/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/15/1992
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A bar code scanning system comprising:

  • a. a first housing adapted to be worn on a user'"'"'s finger including an exit port spaced rearwardly from the fingertip of the user'"'"'s outstretched finger and a symbol detector for generating a moving light beam directed through the exit port toward and across a symbol to be read on a target and for receiving reflected light from such symbol to produce an electrical signal corresponding to the intensity of the reflected light;

    b. a switch for energizing said light beam;

    c. a mount for mounting said housing on the finger in a position to project the moving beam forwardly generally in the direction of natural pointing of the finger;

    d. a second housing adapted to be worn on the user remotely from the first housing and including a signal processor for processing the electrical signal to generate therefrom a digitized signal descriptive of the bar code symbol, and a display for visually displaying information to the user; and

    e. a transfer circuit for transferring said electrical signal from said first housing to said second housing.

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