A hand-supportable coplanar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) based code symbol reader includes: a hand-supportable housing having light transmission aperture; a linear image formation and detection module having a linear image detection array; and a planar laser illumination beam (PLIB) producing...http://www.google.de/patents/US7621455?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7621455 - Hand-supportable code symbol reader employing coplanar laser illumination and linear imaging
