Portable handheld terminal including optical bar code reader and electromagnetic transceiver means for interactive wireless communication with a base communications station
AssigneeCliniCom Incorporated
InventorsRonald E. Zook, Peter P. Gombrich
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Abstract
A portable handheld terminal (20) including optical bar code reader apparatus. A housing (22) having first and second spaced apart, opposing major surfaces (24,26) extending longitudinally between first and second end portions (28,30). A handle portion (40) being interconnected to the housing (22) and extending longitudinally along the second surface (26) so as to provide a handle for holding the bar code reader apparatus. Additionally, the portable handheld terminal (20) includes an optical bar code reader apparatus utilizing a binary imaging sensor (52) and an RF transceiver (79).
Claims18
A portable handheld terminal, comprising:
- (a) a housing;
- (b) keyboard means disposed on the housing for entry of data;
- (c) display means disposed on the housing for display of data;
- (d) optical sensor means disposed in the housing for sensing bar code indicia on an object;
- (e) electromagnetic transceiver means contained in the housing for transmitting and receiving electromagnetic signals representing the exchange of data between the portable handheld terminal and a remote location while the portable handheld terminal is in use, said electromagnetic transceiver means including means for initiating transmissions to the remote location;
- (f) control means contained in the housing operatively interconnected to the keyboard means, display means, optical sensor means, and electromagnetic transceiver means for controlling operation of the portable handheld terminal;
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- (g) power supply means for powering the portable handheld terminal.
A portable handheld terminal, including:
- (a) a portable handheld terminal, including:
- (i) a housing having first and second spaced apart, opposing major surfaces extending longitudinally of the housing between first and second end portions;
- (ii) keyboard means disposed on the first surface for entering data;
- (iii) display means disposed on the first surface for displaying data;
- (iv) optical sensor means disposed in the housing for sensing bar code indicia;
- (v) RF transceiver means contained in the housing for transmitting and receiving RF signals representing the exchange of data between the portable handheld terminal and a remote location while the portable handheld terminal is in use, said RF transceiver means including means for initiating transmission to he remote location;
- (vi) control means contained in the housing and operatively interconnected to the keyboard means, display means, optical sensor means, and RF transceiver means for controlling operation of the portable handheld terminal;
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- (vii) power supply means for powering the portable handheld terminal;
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- (b) base station means including RF transceiver means for communication with the portable handheld terminal while the portable handheld terminal is in use.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.