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Data-reading image capture apparatus, camera, and method of use

  • US 6,700,613 B1
  • Filed: 06/16/1998
  • Issued: 03/02/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/16/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A data-reading image capture apparatus comprising:

  • a digital image detector sensitive to a band of visible radiation and a band of invisible electromagnetic radiation;

    an optical system focusing said bands of electromagnetic radiation on said image detector;

    an image separator disposed in operative relation to said digital image detector and said optical system, said image separator being switchable between an image capture state and a data reading state, said image separator being attenuative for said band of invisible radiation and transmissive for said band of visible radiation in said image capture state, said image separator being attenuative for said band of visible radiation and transmissive, in close up relative to said visible radiation in said image capture state, for said band of invisible radiation in said data reading state.

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