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US 10,372,955 B2Granted
Reading device and portable device
AssigneeCasio Computer Co., Ltd.
InventorsHiromasu Meguro, Yasunori Chiba, Shinya Okumura
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Abstract
A reading device includes a reading unit configured to illuminate a light beam towards an object to be read, to receive reflected light thereof and to read information of the object to be read, and an imaging unit configured to capture the object to be read, as an image, wherein an illumination direction of the light beam from the reading unit and an imaging direction of the imaging unit are set to be same.
Claims11
A portable device comprising:
- a device case extending along a longitudinal axis from a first side to a second side, wherein the device case comprises:
- a first surface extending along the longitudinal axis;
- and
- a second surface opposite to the first surface, extending along the longitudinal axis,
- wherein parts of the first surface and the second surface that are closer to the first side than the second side along the longitudinal axis form a main body, and
- wherein parts of the first surface and the second surface that are closer to the second side than the first side along the longitudinal axis form a grip extending along the longitudinal axis;
- a display provided on the part of the first surface forming the main body;
- and
- a first reading device comprising:
- a first reading device case comprising:
- a first part configured to be removably arranged within an opening defined in the part of the second surface that forms the main body;
- and
- a second part having a first mountain shape,
- wherein the first mountain shape comprises a first inclined surface and a second inclined surface,
- wherein the first inclined surface and the second inclined surface are inclined in the longitudinal axis away from the second surface of the device case, and
- wherein the second inclined surface is closer to the first side of the device case than the first inclined surface;
- a first reading window arranged on the first inclined surface of the second part of the first reading device;
- a first scanner configured to illuminate a light beam towards an object to be read, to receive reflected light thereof and to read information of the object to be read, wherein the first scanner is arranged relative to the first reading window such that an illumination direction of the light beam is inclined relative to the first reading window;
- an imaging window arranged on the second inclined surface of the second part of the first reading device;
- and
- a camera configured to capture the object to be read as an image, wherein the camera is arranged relative to the imaging window such that an imaging direction of the camera is orthogonal to the imaging window,
- wherein the illumination direction of the light beam from the first scanner and the imaging direction of the camera are set to be same.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.