Barcode image generating device, barcode image reading device and barcode image generating and reading system

• US 20080061146A1
• Filed: 09/07/2007
• Published: 03/13/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/13/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Inventors: Komaki, Yoshio
• Application Number:
  US11/899,734
• Publication Number:
  US 20080061146A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/462.41
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/06037 multi-dimensional coding
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/1417 2D bar codes

Abstract

A barcode image generating device including:

• • a barcode image generating section for generating a barcode image based on content;
  • an ID assigning section for assigning a content ID to the content based on the content;
  • a machine reading specifications determining section for determining, based on the content ID, the machine reading specifications that is readable by the machine; and
  • a visual expression specifications determining section for determining, based on the content ID, visual expression specifications of the barcode image that is visually readable,
  • wherein the barcode image generating section generates the barcode image based on the machine reading specifications and the visual expression specifications.

Claims

1. A barcode image generating device comprising:

a barcode image generating section for generating a barcode image based on content;

an ID assigning section for assigning a content ID to the content based on the content;

a machine reading specifications determining section for determining, based on the content ID, the machine reading specifications of the barcode image that is readable by the machine; and

a visual expression specifications determining section for determining, based on the content ID, visual expression specifications of the barcode image that is visually readable,

wherein the barcode image generating section generates the barcode image based on the machine reading specifications and the visual expression specifications.

2. A barcode image generating device of claim 1, wherein the ID assigning section assigns a number based on at least one of a date information, a location information, an account name information, a generator information, a description language information, a price information, a key word information, a title information, a document type information, a generation method information and a content size information to a part of numbers that the content ID comprises.

3. The barcode image generating device of claim 1, wherein the visual expression specifications comprise an information specifying a cell assigned an expression pattern as the visual expression specifications among pluralities of cells that the bar code image comprises and an attribution information assigning at least a color and a pattern to a specified cell.

4. A barcode image generating device of claim 1, wherein the content ID is a Uniform Resource Locator (URL).

6. A barcode image generating and reading system comprising:

the barcode image generating device of claim 1; and

the barcode image reading device of claim 5.

5. A barcode image reading device comprising:

an ID reading section for reading a content ID from the barcode image generated based on the content ID, wherein the barcode image has an expression pattern as visual expression specifications in which a portion of the content ID is readable by viewing;

an ID portion reading section which reads the portion of the content ID from the expression pattern; and

an ID verifying section which verifies the content ID that was read by the ID reading section and a portion of the content ID that was read by the ID portion reading section and outputs a warning based on the results of the verification.