Digital image capture and processing system employing an image formation and detection subsystem having an area-type image detection array supporting periodic occurrance of snap-shot type image acquisition cycles at a high-repetition rate during object illumination and imaging operations

A digital image capture and processing system comprising:

• a housing having an imaging window;
• an area-type image formation and detection subsystem, disposed in said housing, and having image formation optics for projecting a field of view (FOV) through said imaging window and an area-type image detection array having a periodic snap shot mode of the operation, supporting the periodic occurrence of snap-shot type image acquisition cycles at a high-repetition rate, during object illumination and imaging operations;
• an illumination subsystem, disposed in said housing, including an illumination array for producing a field of illumination within said FOV, and illuminating said object detected in said FOV, so that said illumination reflects off said object and is transmitted back through said imaging window and onto said area-type image detection array to form a 2D digital image frame of said object on said area-type image detection array during each said snap-shot type image acquisition cycle;
• an image capturing and buffering subsystem, disposed in said housing, for capturing and buffering 2D digital image frames detected by said image formation and detection subsystem;
• a digital image processing subsystem, disposed in said housing, for processing 2D digital image frames captured and buffered by said image capturing and buffering subsystem and reading one or more 1D and/or 2D code symbols graphically represented therein, and generating symbol character data representative of said read 1D and/or 2D code symbols;
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• a system control subsystem, disposed in said housing, for controlling and/or coordinating one or more of said subsystems during object detection, illumination and imaging operations, such that the time duration of illumination of an object within said FOV by said illumination subsystem while said area-type image detection array detects each 2D digital image frame of said object formed on said area-type image detection array, is substantially equal to the time duration that said digital image processing subsystem is allowed to process said detected 2D digital image frame and read a 1D and/or 2D code symbol graphically represented therein.