Automatically-activated hand-supportable laser scanning bar code symbol reading system with data transmission activation switch
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    Automatically-activated hand-supportable laser scanning bar code symbol reading system with data transmission activation switch 失效
    自动激活手持式激光扫描条码符号读取系统,带数据传输激活开关

    公开(公告)号:US07252238B2

    公开(公告)日:2007-08-07

    申请号:US10424545

    申请日:2003-04-25

    IPC分类号: G06K7/10

    摘要: Disclosed is an automatically-activated code symbol reading system comprising a bar code symbol reading mechanism contained within a hand-supportable housing having a manually-activatable data transmission switch. During symbol reading operations, the bar code symbol reading mechanism automatically generates a visible laser scanning pattern for repeatedly reading one or more bar code symbols on an object during a bar code symbol reading cycle, and automatically generating a new symbol character data string in response to each bar code symbol read thereby. During system operation, the user visually aligns the visible laser scanning pattern with a particular bar code symbol on an object (e.g. product, bar code menu, etc.) so that the bar code symbol is scanned, detected and decoded in a cyclical manner. Each time the scanned bar code symbol is successfully read during a bar code symbol reading cycle, a new bar code symbol character string is produced, while an indicator light on the hand-supportable housing is actively driven. During the bar code symbol reading cycle, the user actuates the data transmission switch producing a data transmission control activation signal and enabling a currently or subsequently produced symbol character data string to be automatically selected and transmitted to the host system. By virtue of the present invention, automatically-activated hand-supportable bar code symbol readers are now able to accurately read, in an unprecedented manner, bar code symbols on bar code menus, consumer products positioned in crowded point-of-sale environments, and other objects requiring automatic identification and/or information access.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种自动激活的代码符号读取系统,其包括包含在具有可手动激活的数据传输开关的手持式外壳内的条形码符号读取机构。 在符号读取操作期间,条形码符号读取机构自动生成可见激光扫描图案,用于在条形码符号读取周期期间重复读取对象上的一个或多个条形码符号,并响应于该条形码符号读取周期自动生成新的符号字符数据串 每个条码符号读取。 在系统操作期间,用户将可见激光扫描图案与物体上的特定条形码符号(例如产品,条形码菜单等)视觉对准,使得条形码符号以循环方式被扫描,检测和解码。 每次在条形码符号读取循环期间成功读取扫描的条形码符号时,产生新的条形码符号字符串,同时主动驱动手持式外壳上的指示灯。 在条形码符号读取周期期间,用户致动数据传输开关,产生数据传输控制激活信号,并使当前或随后产生的符号字符数据串被自动选择并发送到主机系统。 凭借本发明,自动激活的手持式条形码符号读取器现在能够以前所未有的方式准确地读取位于拥挤的销售点环境中的条形码菜单,消费品的条形码符号,以及 需要自动识别和/或信息访问的其他对象。