A laser processing system includes: a first light irradiator including: a first light emitter to emit first laser light; and a first light scanner to scan a first region of a workpiece with the first laser light emitted from the first light emitter; a second light irradiator including: a second light emitter to emit second laser light; and a second light scanner to scan a second region different from the first region of the workpiece with the second laser light emitted from the second light emitter. The first light irradiator emits the first laser light to the first region of the workpiece in a first irradiation direction, the second light irradiator emits the second laser light to the second region of the workpiece in a second irradiation direction opposite to the first irradiation direction.

A semiconductor device and method of making the same wherein the semiconductor device includes a pFET region including a SiGe channel having a Si-rich top surface within the gate portion, and an nFET region including a Si channel. The method includes subjecting both the pFET and nFET regions to a single high-temperature anneal process thereby avoiding the need for an additional spike anneal process at RMG module.

A multi-spectral scan camera and methods are presented. Light beams are emitted from a plurality of light sources comprising a plurality of spectral wavelengths respectively. The light beams from the light sources are scanned across a field of view at a plurality of respective angles using a scan mirror, and each of the spectral wavelengths are received at respective detectors.

Device (100) for reading coded information, comprising a first optical group (10) including a first light source and first focusing means in optical alignment with said light source along an optical axis (X), and at least one further optical group including a further light source and further focusing means in optical alignment with the further light source along an optical axis (X1) parallel to the optical axis (X). The first optical group (10) and the further optical group (20) are housed in a single one-piece block (50) obtained through a single mechanical processing that, preferably, is a machine tool processing. The number of components of the reading device is thus reduced and the calibration operations necessary to achieve the desired optical alignment between light sources and with the respective focusing means are simplified and automated. Consequently, the costs of material and qualified workers are reduced, as is the time needed to calibrate the reading device.

A bioptic barcode reader has a housing having a lower housing portion with an upper surface and an upper housing portion extending above the lower housing portion. A generally horizontal window is positioned at the upper surface and a generally upright window is positioned in the upper housing portion. An illumination assembly has an illumination field-of-view and an imaging assembly, including an image sensor, has an imaging field-of-view with a centerline that is directed at an angle relative to the upper surface. A mirror arrangement is configured to split the imaging field-of-view along a horizontal axis into first and second portions, redirect the first portion of the imaging field-of-view through the generally upright window, and redirect the second portion of the imaging field-of-view and the illumination field-of-view through the generally horizontal window such that the second portion is uniformly covered by the illumination field-of-view at the generally horizontal window.

Methods for accurate object tracking are disclosed herein. An example the method includes receiving, from a first optical imaging assembly having a first field of view (FOV), a first image captured over the first FOV and based on a decode of an indicia associated with an object of interest, identifying the object of interest within the first image. The method further includes determining a location of the object of interest within the first image and mapping the location of the object of interest within the first image to a predicted location of the object of interest within a second image, the second image being received from a second optical imaging assembly having a second FOV and the second image being captured over the second FOV.

A sensor array (1) having at least one code reader that is designed for reading codes (3), and having at least one computing unit (7). The code reader with the computing unit (7) constitutes an RFID emulator sensor (2), in that the code reader and the computing unit (7) are connected via an emulator data channel (9), via which exclusively subsystem data and/or transponder emulator data can be written to a memory range of a memory unit of the computing unit (7) by the code reader or subsystem data and/or transponder emulator data can be read from this memory unit by means of the code reader, wherein this memory range is defined by a code (3) read by the code reader.

A barcode reader having lower and upper housings, a weigh platter in the lower housing, and an off-platter detection assembly. The weigh platter has a proximal edge adjacent the upper housing, a first lateral edge, and a distal edge. The off-platter detection assembly comprises an off-platter indication system having a plurality of linearly aligned light sources, each light source representing a location along the first lateral edge, and controller operatively coupled to the plurality of light sources. The controller is configured to: determine if an object extends over the first lateral edge; determine a location of the object along the first lateral edge; and illuminate a first portion of the light sources representing a distance between the proximal edge of the weigh platter and the object and de-illuminate a second portion of the light sources representing a distance between the object and the distal edge of the weigh platter.

A bioptic barcode reader has a housing having a lower housing portion with an upper surface and an upper housing portion extending above the lower housing portion. A generally horizontal window is positioned at the upper surface and a generally upright window is positioned in the upper housing portion. An illumination assembly has an illumination field-of-view and an imaging assembly, including an image sensor, has an imaging field-of-view with a centerline that is directed at an angle relative to the upper surface. A mirror arrangement is configured to split the imaging field-of-view into first and second portions, redirect the first portion of the imaging field-of-view through the generally upright window, and redirect the second portion of the imaging field-of-view and the illumination field-of-view through the generally horizontal window such that the second portion is covered by the illumination field-of-view at the generally horizontal window.

A sufficient decoding processing time for each image acquired by performing high-speed imaging is secured to obtain a stable reading result, thereby enabling immediate output of the obtained reading result. A processing unit has a first core and a plurality of second cores. The first core instructs the second cores, presumed to be capable of immediately executing the decoding process or executing the decoding process next to a decoding process being currently executed, to execute the decoding process. The second cores are configured to be capable of simultaneously executing the decoding process on read images instructed by the first core at different timings.