Methods and apparatus for control of an imaging scanner

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8950672-B2
Application number	US-201113247451-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 28, 2011
Priority date	Sep 28, 2011
Publication date	Feb 10, 2015
Grant date	Feb 10, 2015

Abstract

Techniques are addressed for control of an imaging scanner to supplement a laser scan line based scanner. Upon detection of the imaging scanner in a docked position, a lighting arrangement is automatically lit and the imager is triggered. Upon detection of the imaging scanner not in the docked position, the imaging scanner is not automatically lit, but rather is only lit upon manual trigger activation. As an alternative to the automatic lighting when docked, the lighting may be cued upon the imaging scanner being docked and an analysis of laser scan video detecting a barcode like object or upon detecting a barcode like object in the image field of the imaging scanner.

First claim

We claim:

1. A dual purpose imaging scanner apparatus operating to obtain images and read complex codes in a docked position in a dual aperture scanner, and to read regular barcodes when not in the docked position comprising:
an imaging scanner;
a detector to detect that the imaging scanner is in the docked position in the dual aperture scanner;
a lighting arrangement mounted on the imaging scanner to light an object placed in an active imaging field for the imaging scanner to…

Assignees

• Collins Donald
• Crooks John
• Ncr Corp

Inventors

• Collins Donald
• Crooks John

Classifications

• G06K7/10554

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06K7/109 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06K7/10722

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06K7/1096

  Physics · mapped topic