Dynamic bar code display apparatus, dynamic bar code generation method, and storage medium generation dynamic bar code

• US 20060054695A1
• Filed: 05/30/2002
• Published: 03/16/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Global Value Corporation
• Original Assignee: Global Value Corporation
• Inventors: Owada, Hiroshi
• Application Number:
  US10/512,546
• Publication Number:
  US 20060054695A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/440
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/06028 using bar codes
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/06112 the marking being simulated using a light source, e.g. a barcode shown on a display or a laser beam with time-varying intensity profile
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/1095 the scanner comprising adaptations for scanning a record carrier that is displayed on a display-screen or the like
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions

Abstract

By changing methods from the conventional method in which a plurality of bar codes are arranged in the space for use to the method of the invention in which a plurality of bar codes are used according to time, so that the conventional bar codes which are displayed in a fixed fashion are changed over to dynamic bar codes which are displayed dynamically, a dynamic bar code display apparatus for displaying bar codes which are difficult to be copied and which increases the volume of data of the bar codes, a dynamic bar code generation method and a storage medium which generates dynamic bar codes can be provided. The bar code display apparatus comprises a storage means in which bar code images are stored, a display means for displaying at least two or more bar codes continuously and a control means for controlling the display means.

Claims

1. A dynamic bar code display apparatus comprising storage means in which an image of a bar code is stored, display means for displaying continuously at least two or more bar codes and control means for controlling the display means, whereby at least two or more bar codes are displayed continuously.

2. A dynamic bar code display apparatus as set forth in claim 1, comprising communication means for communicating with an external data base via a network, so that at least two or more bar codes are continuously displayed thereon based on information transmitted to and received from the external data base as a result of transmitting to and receiving from the external data base bar code images and numerical information.

3. A dynamic bar code display apparatus as set forth in claim 1, comprising generating means for generating at least two or more bar code images based on information transmitted and received by the communication means, so that the images so generated are made to be stored in the storage means so as to implement the display of at least two or more bar codes.

4. A dynamic bar code display apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein a bar code display position of the display means remains unchanged for displaying bar codes.

5. A dynamic bar code display apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein two or more bar codes which are displayed on the display means each have a code displayed therein which has an additional code indicating a sequence thereof.

6. A dynamic bar code display apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein a code indicating a result of calculation of numeric value information of part or all of bar codes is added to be displayed in either or any of at least two or more bar codes which are displayed by the display means.

7. A dynamic bar code display apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein at least two or more bar codes which are displayed on the display means each have a code displayed therein which has an additional code indicating time information.

8. A dynamic bar code display apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein at least two or more bar codes which are displayed on the display means each have a code displayed therein which has an additional code indicating a code delimiter.

9. A dynamic bar code display apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein, in the event that a normal communication cannot be implemented in the communication means, at least two or more bar codes are generated for display based on a record of the previous normal communication which is stored in the storage means.

10. A dynamic bar code display apparatus as set forth in claim 1, comprising a mobile telephone that can be carried.

11. A dynamic car code display apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein the communication by the communication means is implemented by transmitting and receiving information to and from an external data base by accessing a network using radio waves.

12. A dynamic bar code display method having a reading step of reading at least two or more bar code images from a storage means in which bar code images are stored and a displaying step of displaying at least two or more bar codes by causing the at least two or more bar code images so read to continue.

19. A dynamic bar code display method as set forth in claim 12, wherein in the event that a normal communication cannot be implemented in the communicating step, at least two or more bar codes are generated for display based on a record of the previous normal communication which is stored in a storage means.

28. A dynamic bar code display method as set forth in claim 12, having a communicating step of communicating with an external data base via a network in the communicating step, whereby numeric value information or bar code image information which is required to generate a bar code is transmitted to and received from the external data base.

13. A dynamic bar code display method having a bar code generating step of generating a plurality of bar code images from arbitrary numeric value information and a displaying step for displaying at least two or more bar codes by causing the at least two or more bar code images so generated to continue.

14. A dynamic bar code display method as set forth in claim 13, having a communicating step of communicating with an external data base via a network in the communicating step, whereby numeric value information or bar code image information which is required to generate a bar code is transmitted to and received from the external data base.

15. A dynamic bar code display method as set forth in claim 13, having a sequence adding step for adding a code indicating a sequence thereof to each of the plurality of bar codes when the plurality of bar codes are generated in the bar code generating step.

16. A dynamic bar code display method as set forth in claim 13, having a time adding step of adding a code indicating a time to one or each of the plurality of bar codes when the plurality of bar codes are generated in the bar code generating step.

17. A dynamic bar code display method as set forth in claim 13, having a calculation result adding step of adding a code indicating a result of calculation of the numeric value information to one or each of the plurality of bar codes when the plurality of bar codes are generated in the bar code generating step.

18. A dynamic bar code display method as set forth in claim 13, having a code delimiter adding step of adding a code indicating a code delimiter to one or each of the plurality of bar codes when the plurality of bar codes are generated in the bar code generating step.

20. A storage medium, wherein a program is stored in the storage medium which contains a reading program code for reading at least two or more images each having a bar code from storage means where bar code images are stored and a displaying program code, which is executable by a computer, for displaying at least two or more bar codes by causing the images so read to continue.

29. A storage medium as set forth in claim 20, wherein a program is stored in the storage medium which contains a communicating program code provided in the dynamic bar code display program for communicating with an external data base via a network and a program code, which is executable by a computer, for transmitting to and receiving from the external data base numeric value information or a bar code image itself which is required to generate a bar code in the communicating program.

21. A storage medium, wherein a program is stored in the storage medium which contains a bar code image generating program code for generating a plurality of bar code images from arbitrary numeric value information and a displaying program code, which executable by a computer, for displaying at least two or more bar codes by causing the plurality of bar code images so generated to continue.

22. A storage medium as set forth in claim 21, wherein a program is stored in the storage medium which contains a communicating program code provided in the dynamic bar code display program for communicating with an external data base via a network and a program code, which is executable by a computer, for transmitting to and receiving from the external data base numeric value information or a bar code image itself which is required to generate a bar code in the communicating program.

23. A storage medium as set forth in claim 21, wherein a program is stored in the storage medium which contains a time adding program code, which executable by a computer, for adding a code indicating a time to one or each of the plurality of bar codes when the plurality of the bar codes are generated in the bar code generating program.

24. A storage medium as set forth in claim 21, wherein a program is stored in the storage medium which contains a sequence adding program code, which is executable by a computer, for adding a code indicating a sequence thereof to each of a plurality of bar codes when the plurality of bar codes are generated in the bar code generated program.

25. A storage medium as set forth in claim 21, wherein a program is stored in the storage medium which contains a code delimiter adding program code, which is executable by a computer, for adding a code indicating a code delimiter to one or each of the plurality of bar codes when the plurality of bar codes are generated in the bar code generating program.

26. A storage medium as set forth in claim 21, wherein a program is stored in the storage medium which contains a calculation result adding program code, which is executable by a computer, for adding a code indicating a result of calculation of the numeric value information to one or each of the plurality of bar codes when the plurality of bar codes are generated in the bar code generating program.

27. A storage medium as set forth in claim 21, wherein a program is stored in the storage medium which contains a program, which is executable by a computer, for generating at least two or more bar codes for display based on a record of the previous normal communication which is stored in a storage means, in the event that normal communication cannot be implemented in the communicating program.