Gateway scanner
AssigneeZebra Technologies Corporation
InventorsEdward Barkan, Mark Drzymala, Darran Michael Handshaw
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Abstract
An imaged-based scanner includes a housing having a lower portion, an upper portion, and an extension arm extending upward from the lower portion to the upper portion. A lower portion includes a base having an exit window and an imaging assembly mounted in that base with at least one field of view directed upwardly through the exit window. The upper portion has imaging assembly that has at least two fields of view. That upper imaging assembly is mounted such that the two fields of view extend downwardly toward the lower portion with each field of view positioned to have a central axis that is offset with respect to a center normal of the exit window.
Claims26
A scanner comprising:
- a housing having a lower portion, an upper portion, and an extension arm extending upward from the lower portion to the upper portion;
- the lower portion having an exit window and a lower imaging assembly mounted in the lower portion below the exit window and having at least one field of view directed upwardly through the exit window;
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- the upper portion having an upper imaging assembly mounted in the upper portion and having two fields of view, wherein the upper portion is configured such that the two fields of view extend downwardly toward the lower portion with each field of view positioned to have a central axis that is offset with respect to a center normal of the exit window,
- wherein the upper portion comprises two branching arms extending in opposing lateral directions away from a center region where the upper portion is supported by the extension arm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.