The present invention relates to a portable bar code reading device that generates electronic representations of a substrate having a bar code symbol disposed thereon. A portable bar code reading device according to the invention can incorporate a solid state image sensor and can generate first and second electronic representations. The first and second electronic representations generated by a portable bar code reading device in one embodiment represent first and second regions of the substrate that are of different sizes. A portable bar code reading device having a memory and a trigger can be configured to attempt to decode a bar code symbol by processing of an electronic representation and further can be configured so that the first and second electronic representations are stored into the memory after a single depressing of the trigger. A portable bar code reading device can be configured so that the portable bar code reading device completes storing of the second electronic representation into the memory after completing storing of the first electronic representation.
CROSS REFERENCES TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application is a divisional of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/385,597 filed on Aug. 30, 1999, which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/839,020 filed Apr. 23, 1997, which issued as U.S. Pat. No. 5,965,863 on Oct. 12, 1999, which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/697,913 filed Sep. 3, 1996, which issued as U.S. Pat. No. 5,900,613 on May 4, 1999; the aforementioned U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/839,020 filed Apr. 23, 1997 also being a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/504,643 filed Jul. 20, 1995 which issued as U.S. pat. No. 5,773,806 on Jun. 30, 1998; the aforementioned U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/697,913 filed Sep. 23, 1996 being a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/504,643 filed on Jul. 20, 1995 which issued as U.S. Pat. No. 5,773,806 on Jun. 30, 1998, the aforementioned U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/697,913, filed on Sep. 3, 1996 also being a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/516,185 filed Aug. 18, 1995, which is now abandoned, which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/205,539 filed on Mar. 4, 1994, which issued as U.S. Pat. No. 5,463,214. The priorities of all of the above applications are claimed, and the disclosure of each of the above applications is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
