Reading device
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorShintaro HARADA
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Abstract
A reading device provided to obtain information specifying a product, the device including a housing, an imaging unit, and an illumination unit. The housing includes a transparent reading window. The imaging unit is built in the housing and captures an image through the reading window. The illumination unit illuminates an imaging target of the imaging unit by performing surface emission of light toward the outside of the housing. The illumination unit is disposed outside an edge of the reading window and is inclined with respect to the reading window so as to protrude more with respect to the reading window toward a side farther from the reading window.
Claims5
A reading device provided to obtain information specifying a product, the reading device comprising:
- a housing including a transparent reading window;
- an imaging unit that is built in the housing and captures an image through the reading window;
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- an illumination unit that illuminates an imaging target of the imaging unit by surface emission of light toward an outside of the housing, the illumination unit being disposed outside an edge of the reading window and inclined with respect to the reading window such that the illumination unit protrudes from the reading window more as going further away from the reading window.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.